Live Auction 10750The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres
A SEVRES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE', PLATEAU ET COUVERCLE)
Lot 22

A SEVRES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE', PLATEAU ET COUVERCLE)

CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK N FOR FRANCOIS-JOSEPH ALONCLE

Closed25 November 2014

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A SEVRES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE', PLATEAU ET COUVERCLE)
CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK N FOR FRANCOIS-JOSEPH ALONCLE
Reserved with two shaped oval panels painted with exotic birds in landscape within gilt scroll cartouches (retouched rim chip to écuelle, the cover with an extended firing crack to the rim and flange, slight wear to gilding)
The écuelle 14 cm. (5½ in.) wide across handles

The Collection of Christopher Beckett Denison, Esq., sale; Christie's, London, 6 June 1885, lot 497 (purchased by Grindlay for £74 and 17 shillings).
Anonymous sale: Sotheby's, London, 21 October 1988, lot 348.
With Robert Williams, Eastbourne, from whom it was acquired 24 October 1988.

Specialist note

All four sizes of the écuelle 'ronde' had appeared in the sales records by 1753. The fourth size and smallest, which is not listed after 1775 cost from 24 livres to 60 livres with flowers while examples of the third size, painted with birds on a blue ground cost 240 livres. The width of the present lot does not correspond exactly with those suggested for sizes one to four of this form and it may therefore be an example of the smaller sized écuelles that are thought to have been produced from the 1760s.

François-Joseph Aloncle was a painter of birds, animals and landscapes active at Sèvres between 1758 and 1781.