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A Sèvres hard-paste porcelain lobed circular tureen and cover (pot à oille et son couvercle), circa 1773 image 1
A Sèvres hard-paste porcelain lobed circular tureen and cover (pot à oille et son couvercle), circa 1773 image 2
Lot 107

A Sevres hard-paste porcelain lobed circular tureen and cover (pot à oille et son couvercle), circa 1773

3 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Sevres hard-paste porcelain lobed circular tureen and cover (pot à oille et son couvercle), circa 1773

Of bombé form on four scroll feet rising to entwined handles with gilt foliate terminals, the domed cover surmounted by a gilt finial in the form of artichokes and an onion, each painted with two colourful flower sprays within a gilt scrollwork cartouche, flanked on the tureen by gilt-ground panels within foliate borders, on the cover by a gilt flowerhead within a cartouche, gilt Vitruvian scroll borders to the rims, 30cm across handles; 24cm high, crowned LL monogram enclosing date letter U, painter's mark '.P.T.' for Pithou lainé and gilder's mark 2000 for Vincent in blue (cover cleanly restuck in two pieces) (2)

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Provenance:
One of two tureens and stands delivered on 26 December 1773 to the comte d'Ecases (described as "2 pots à oille et plateaux peint par pithou riche en or" and priced at 600 livres each;
August-Charles-Joseph Comte de Flahaut (1785-1870);
Thence by descent to the 4th Marquis of Lansdowne, Meikleour House, sold at Christie's London, 12 June 1995, lot 546;
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 9 October 2013, lot 661

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