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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE CIRCULAR ECUELLE, COVER AND OVAL STAND (ECUELLE 'ROND TOURNEE' 3EME GRANDEUR ET PLATEAU 'OVALE')
- BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M FOR 1765 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR EVANS, GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AINE, THE STAND INCISED WITH A VL, THE ECUELLE WITH A MALTESE CROSS

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE CIRCULAR ECUELLE, COVER AND OVAL STAND (ECUELLE 'ROND TOURNEE' 3EME GRANDEUR ET PLATEAU 'OVALE')
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M FOR 1765 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR EVANS, GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AINE, THE STAND INCISED WITH A VL, THE ECUELLE WITH A MALTESE CROSS
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    $15,000 - $20,000

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Sale 2350
500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
21 - 22 October 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE CIRCULAR ECUELLE, COVER AND OVAL STAND (ECUELLE 'ROND TOURNEE' 3EME GRANDEUR ET PLATEAU 'OVALE')
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M FOR 1765 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR EVANS, GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AINE, THE STAND INCISED WITH A VL, THE ECUELLE WITH A MALTESE CROSS
Both painted with two panels of exotic birds in a landscape reserved within gilt bands, the rims with scrollwork enclosing trellis and diaper and suspending berried laurel and flower garlands
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) wide, the stand (3)

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Provenance

The Earl of Harewood; Christie's, London, 1 July 1965, lot 13.
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge, no. 29.

Lot Notes

Etienne Evans, recorded at Vincennes as Sèvres as a bird, animal and flower painter, 1752-1786.
Michel-Barnabé Chauvaux, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a gilder, 1752-1788.

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