Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 192*
A Sèvres helmet-shaped milk jug (Pot à lait aiguière), dated 1788
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,825 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Sèvres helmet-shaped milk jug (Pot à lait aiguière), dated 1788
Decorated by Denis Levé with a trophy emblematic for love amongst trailing foliate scrollwork interspersed with birds and flowers, between blue-ground bands painted with flower garlands, gilt rims, the handle heightened in gilding, 13.7cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter LL, painter's mark for Levé, incised marks
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 18 November 1999, lot 229;
Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private Collection
Linda Roth identifies this rare shape of milk jug with the pots à lait forme Eguere in three sizes found in the factory documents and fired in the glaze kiln in 1788. Another example and a surviving plaster model of the same shape was described as pot à lait buire and is illustrated in Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (2000), p. 252, no. 131.
A helmet jug with a similar type of decoration and also painted by Levé was sold at Sotheby's Paris, 19 December 2017, lot 235.
