Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 191*
A Sèvres écuelle, cover and stand (Écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'rond'), dated 1781
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,120 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our European Ceramics specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Sèvres écuelle, cover and stand (Écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'rond'), dated 1781
Of the third (écuelle) and second size (stand), decorated by Jean-Charles Sioux l'aîné with flower garlands hanging from blue feathered borders under a gilt foliate band and pale blue ground border with puce flowerheads, the rims gilt, the cover applied with a foliate branch handle, the stand: 21cm diam., the écuelle: 11.5cm high, interlaced LL monograms with date letter DD, painter's marks for Sioux, gilder's marks for Chauvaux, incised 43a over 9 and VL (small flat chip to inside footrim of écuelle) (3)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Pompey Collection, sold Christie's New York, 23 May 2002, lot 65;
Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private Collection
For pieces of similar date and decoration by Sioux, see a déjeuner from the collection of J.P. Morgan in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J.P. Morgan Collection, 2000, no. 106).
