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Lot 217

A Sèvres jug, circa 1765

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £15,360 inc. premium

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A Sèvres jug, circa 1765

Broc Ordinaire, of the second size, decorated with an Ikat pattern, alternating vertical bands of pink ground with gilt stiff leaf pattern and feathered gilt and puce elements, the rim and handle picked out with gold edges, 20 cm high, interlaced double L and date mark M for 1765

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A teapot (Théière 'Calabre') with the same pattern and dated one year later, was sold in these rooms, 9 December 2021, lot 259.

Ikat textiles were fabrics woven from various pre-dyed yarns using a resist technique producing a soft, blurred and often geometric pattern, once woven into cloth. The technique was developed in different parts of the world, but is most often associated with Indonesia, where the term originates.

These fabrics became fashionable in Europe during the 18th century and were known by the French terms chiné or chiné à la branche. By the 1760s, French weavers were also producing their own versions, including in silk, which were used in fashionable dressmaking. Surviving gowns from the 1760s are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. C.I.60.40.2a, b) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (accession no. M.60.36.1), amongst others.

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