A SÈVRES CHAMBER-CANDLESTICK (bengeoir) with flat loop handle and waisted nozzle, the circular drip-pan with a band of garden flowers within a band of puce flowerhead and blue and pink zig-zag ornament, the nozzle similarly decorated and the handle with a garland of flowers terminating in radiating puce and yellow petals within purple borders and gilt dentil and dot rims (two slight cracks to nozzle, some rubbing to gilding), blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter M for 1765, painter's mark of Le Guay

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A SÈVRES CHAMBER-CANDLESTICK (bengeoir) with flat loop handle and waisted nozzle, the circular drip-pan with a band of garden flowers within a band of puce flowerhead and blue and pink zig-zag ornament, the nozzle similarly decorated and the handle with a garland of flowers terminating in radiating puce and yellow petals within purple borders and gilt dentil and dot rims (two slight cracks to nozzle, some rubbing to gilding), blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter M for 1765, painter's mark of Le Guay
15cm. wide

拍品专文

Étienne-Henry Le Guay, working periods 1748-9, 1751-96

Cf. the example sold by Christie's Monaco on 16 June 1990, lot 93; see also Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, p. 157, no. 100 for a bleu celeste example in the Frick Collection, New York. The Sales records are too vague to distinguish between the forms ordinaire, ancienne, nouvelle