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Lot 196*

A Sèvres bucket-shaped sugar bowl and cover from a service for Louis XVI, 1789

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Sèvres bucket-shaped sugar bowl and cover from a service for Louis XVI, 1789

Painted with a blue line band entwined by spaced S-shaped berried myrtle garlands, between borders of red line bands encircled by overlapping trails of cornflowers, gilt dentil rims, 9.5cm high, interlaced LL monogram in blue and date letter mm, painter's mark for Mme Buteux (la jeune), incised mark (minor wear to gilding) (2)

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Purchased by Louis XVI in 1789 as part of a supplement for the 'Guirlandes de Barbeaux' service;
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 2 October 1978, lot 274;
American Private Collection

The supplement to the 'Guirlandes de Barbeaux' service purchased in 1783 was delivered to Louis XVI via the contrôleur du Roi, Jean-René-Christophe Roth, in April of 1789. It also was accompanied by biscuit figures, miniature vases and various teawares including 7 pots à sucre. The present lot was one of these and is mentioned in David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005), IV, no. 89-2, pp. 877-878.

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