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A Sèvres bleu-céleste ground gold-mounted jug and cover, circa 1765 image 1
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Lot 167*

A Sèvres bleu-céleste ground gold-mounted jug and cover, circa 1765

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,500

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A Sèvres bleu-céleste ground gold-mounted jug and cover, circa 1765

Pot à l'eau tourné of the fourth size, also called a pot à lait, the blue ground reserved with a gilt floral and foliate cartouche with an opulent loose bouquet of flowers, the handle terminal flanked by scrolling floral gilding and the spout with elaborate gilt scrollwork, the cover with a similar floral reserve, the gold mount with Paris charge mark for 1756-62, 9.5cm high, interlaced LL monogram in blue enclosing date letter M, painter's mark for A.-T. Cornailles

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Provenance:
American Private Collection

Water jugs (pot à l'eau) of the smallest size (fourth size) were often used as milk jugs and are rather rare. One jug with matching jatte 'Hébert' dated 1767 is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris and another two were at Mentmore, sold at Sotheby's, 24 May 1977. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, II (1988), pp. 692-695, for a full discussion of the shape and size.

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