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Lot 178*
A Sèvres pomade pot and cover (pot à pommade et couvercle), dated 1759
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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A Sèvres pomade pot and cover (pot à pommade et couvercle), dated 1759
Painted by Vincent Taillandier, with cartouches of flower sprays on a green and bleu-lapis ground, gilt rims, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a flower finial, 7.3cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter f, painter's mark for V. Taillandier, incised 3 (tiny restuck flake to cover) (2)
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Provenance:
Otto Blohm Collection, Hamburg (sold by Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1960, lot 120);
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 26;
Vincennes & Sevres from a New England Collection, Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 69;
The Pompey Collection, sold Christie's New York, 23 May 2002, lot 18;
Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private Collection
Literature:
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm (1953), no. 372, p.252.
For a cup and saucer with blue- and green-ground decoration and a full discussion of this type of decoration, see Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (2000), no. 84, pp. 178-180.
The combination of bleu-lapis and green grounds was mainly used during the years from 1758 to 1762, although the factory seems to have attempted the combination earlier, for instance in 1752, when they listed several pomade pots with landscape decoration with a fond bleu et verd. The colour combination was also described as saffre et vert in the factory sale records.
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