A SEVRES CHESTNUT BASKET AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (MARRONIERE 'ATTENANTE A SON PLATEAU')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759-1760, INCISED (CIRCLE W/SLASH EXTENDING)

细节

A SEVRES CHESTNUT BASKET AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (MARRONIERE 'ATTENANTE A SON PLATEAU')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter G for 1759-1760, incised (circle w/slash extending)
The oval basket, domed cover, branch handle and oval stand with everted border reticulated overall in the flat trellis laced in blue, the rims enriched in gilt
10in. (26.7cm.) long, the stand

来源

Major-General Sir George Burns, North Mimms Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Christie's on the premises, 24-25 September 1979, lot 652 (#550)
With Winifred Williams

出版

Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Svres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 759, 761 footnote shape A, no. C

拍场告示

The placement of the lot numbers below the catalogue illustration of lots 24 and 25 has been inverted.

拍品专文

The present chestnut basket and stand, the similar example in the Wadsworth Atheneum, or the bleu celeste and white example in the Wallace Collection may be the "marronnire 'filets Bleux'" purchased in 1760 by the dealer Sayde for 192 livres (Savill, op cit, p. 759.)