Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 98
A Sèvres green-ground oval stand (Plateau "à quatre pans ronds"), circa 1758
3 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,120 inc. premium
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A Sèvres green-ground oval stand (Plateau "à quatre pans ronds"), circa 1758
Of quatrefoil form with pierced, gilt-edged scroll handles, the centre finely painted with a spray of flowers and fruit and a butterfly, the rim reserved with two panel painted with trailing flowers within a gilt scrollwork cartouche flanked by trellis panels and trailing flowers, 40cm across handles, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter E and unidentified painter's mark '.3.'
Footnotes
The painter's mark is recorded as a flower painter between 1757-64, possibly for J-J. Mongenot or M. Socquet; see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vol. I, 2005, p. 95. A Vincennes écuelle 'à quatre pans ronds' together with its stand is illustrated in T. Préaud/A. d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, 1991, no. 112.
A very similar green-ground stand of 1758 was sold at Christie's New York, 1-2 March 2005, lot 302; and again on 22 October 2020, lot 71.
