Live Auction 17468The Collector: English & European 18th & 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A GILT-METAL AND EBONIZED WOOD MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND TEA KETTLE AND COVER (THEIERE 'BOUILLOTTE' ET SON COUVERCLE)
Lot 204 A Private Collection of Eighteenth Century Porcelain

A GILT-METAL AND EBONIZED WOOD MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND TEA KETTLE AND COVER (THEIERE 'BOUILLOTTE' ET SON COUVERCLE)

CIRCA 1780, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L’S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER CC, PAINTER’S MARK FOR EVANS, GILDER’S MARK FOR PREVOST

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A GILT-METAL AND EBONIZED WOOD MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND TEA KETTLE AND COVER (THEIERE 'BOUILLOTTE' ET SON COUVERCLE)
CIRCA 1780, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L’S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER CC, PAINTER’S MARK FOR EVANS, GILDER’S MARK FOR PREVOST
Painted with a band of alternating roses and cornflowers within gilt wreaths and separated by flower-heads on a stippled puce ground, the pot further painted with roses and violets on a yellow-ground, gilt garlands at the rims, with dolphin-mask fluted spout and lyre form handle
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 7 November 2012, lot 45.

Specialist note

For a similar model of this rare form in the collection of Sèvres-Cité de la Ceramique (no. MNCS 23260), see M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres, des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p.109. Also compare the kettle with gilt Etruscan decoration in the Art Institute of Chicago, museum ref. no. 1998.517a-b.

Henri-Martin Prévost is recorded as a gilder in the manufactory from 1757-97 and Étienne Evans is recorded as a painter of flowers from 1752-86.