TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN BOTTLE COOLERS (SEAUX ‘A DEMI BOUTEILLE’) FITTED WITH PORCELAIN AND GILT-TOLE FLOWERS
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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN BOTTLE COOLERS (SEAUX ‘A DEMI BOUTEILLE’) FITTED WITH PORCELAIN AND GILT-TOLE FLOWERS

THE COOLERS CIRCA 1769, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q, PAINTER’S MARKS FOR NIQUET; THE FLOWERS 18TH CENTURY AND LATER; THE GILT-TOLE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN BOTTLE COOLERS (SEAUX ‘A DEMI BOUTEILLE’) FITTED WITH PORCELAIN AND GILT-TOLE FLOWERS
THE COOLERS CIRCA 1769, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q, PAINTER’S MARKS FOR NIQUET; THE FLOWERS 18TH CENTURY AND LATER; THE GILT-TOLE 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Each half-bottle cooler painted with scattered bouquets and sprigs within blue-line-and-gilt-dash filets, fitted with a bouquet of porcelain flowers on gilt tôle stems
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high, overall

Vicomtesse Vigier; Palais Galliéra, Paris, 3 June 1970, lot 226.

Specialist note

Nicquet is recorded as a flower painter at the Sèvres manufactory from 1764-92.