Live Auction 17140The Collector: English & European 18th & 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PINK-GROUND OVAL DISHES (COMPOTIER OVALE)
Lot 137 A Private Collection of Eighteenth Century Porcelain

A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PINK-GROUND OVAL DISHES (COMPOTIER OVALE)

CIRCA 1774, GREY INTERLACED L'S MARKS AND INDISTINCT DATE MARK, GILT PAINTER'S MARK FOR DRAND, BLUE GILDER'S MARK FOR BAUDOIN PERE

Closed9 April 2019

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PINK-GROUND OVAL DISHES (COMPOTIER OVALE)
CIRCA 1774, GREY INTERLACED L'S MARKS AND INDISTINCT DATE MARK, GILT PAINTER'S MARK FOR DRAND, BLUE GILDER'S MARK FOR BAUDOIN PERE
Each finely painted with four flower bouquets within gilt cartouches of flowers and grasses, all linked by gilt flower garlands
10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.) long

Sold to the Paris marchand-bijoutier Jacques Dumoulin, in the first half of 1774.
Christie's, London, 10 June 1860, lot 122 (part).

Specialist note

The present pair of compotier ovale are from a service sold to the Paris marchand-bijoutier Jacques Dumoulin, in the first half of 1774 and later offered at Christie's, London, 10 June 1860. Other pieces from the service are in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (formerly part of the J.P. Morgan collection); Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C.; and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. See D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, vol. II, pp. 513-4.
François Drand is recorded as a painter specializing in flowers at the manufactory from 1764-80. François Baudouin père is recorded as a gilder from 1750-1800.