Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 213*
A Sèvres bleu-célèste-ground tobacco jar and cover, circa 1768
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,625 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Sèvres bleu-célèste-ground tobacco jar and cover, circa 1768
Pot à tabac, reserved with elongated gilt-edged oval medallions surrounded by formal and foliate gilding, painted alternatingly with long pendants of flowers and leaves and pendants of puce bell flowers, the cover similarly decorated, 15.2cm high, interlaced LL monogram in blue enclosing date letter P, painter's mark ... for J.-B. Tandart (l'aîné), incised marks (small restuck section to rim) (2)
Footnotes
Other examples of the rare pot à tabac are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Another is illustrated in M. Brunet/T. Préaud, Sèvres - des origines à nos jours (1978), p. 88, colour plate XXXVI.
A cup and trembleuse saucer of the same date and painted by Tandart with similar decoration, but a green ground, was sold at Christie's London, 28 November 1977, lot 16.
