Lot n° 53
Estimation :
800 - 1200
EUR
Eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain pot à oille, with unfini - Lot 53
Eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain pot à oille, with unfinished decoration and later gilding.
Blue markings with two interlaced Ls, traces of a painter's mark.
Rocaille form with polychrome decoration of putti in clouds in gold poly-lobed cartouches set against a green background, restored.
L : 34 cm
This unfinished pot à oille was most likely intended for the service delivered to King Frederick V of Denmark. A completed terrine from this delivery is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 50.211.182a, b).
For a commentary on this delivery, see David Peters
Sèvres plates and services of the 18th century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, Vol. II, pp. 301-305.
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