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Lot 1217 Dα

A Sèvres porcelain dish on stand with an opulent frieze

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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A Sèvres porcelain dish on stand with an opulent frieze

"Écuelle ronde tournée" model in the third size with a domed lid and branch finial on a "plateau ovale" stand in the second size. Richly decorated with trelliswork and laurel reserves. Conjoined double-L mark around the year letter L, various incised marks, blue enamel +. Minor wear to the gilding. H of tureen with lid 11.9, D 13.2, W of plate 22.5 cm.
1764, decor attributed to Philippe Xhrouet.

Provenance

"Collection of Dr. Anella Brown, Washington D.C.
Private collection, Rome."

Literature

"Cf. this painter's mark in Brunet/Préaud, Sèvres. Des origines à nos jours, Fribourg 1978, p. 383.
Two similarly decorated cups and saucers in the Wallace Collection in London, also attributed to Xhrouet (in Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London 1988, vol. II, no. C357). this model ibid. no. C428-9, 432-3 and 434-5.
Cf. also Roth/ Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, no. 156, for a similarly decorated écuelle with the same model from 1763.
Cf. A tureen of this form in the Louvre Paris (inv. no. OA 7203)."