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A SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND BUTTER TUB AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (BEURRIER)
- BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER N FOR 1766 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR THEODORE, INCISED 31

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND BUTTER TUB AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (BEURRIER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER N FOR 1766 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR THEODORE, INCISED 31
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    $3,000 - $4,000

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





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A SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND BUTTER TUB AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (BEURRIER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER N FOR 1766 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR THEODORE, INCISED 31
Painted with oval panels of flowers reserved on the yellow ground within gilt bands
7 7/8 in. (19.9 cm.) diameter (2)

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PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION (LOTS 613-614)

Provenance

Oscar Dusendschon, Geneva; Sotheby's & Co., London, 6 December 1961, lot 87.
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge, no. 85.

Lot Notes

Pierre-Théodore Buteux, known as Théodore, recorded at Sèvres as a painter and gilder, 1765-84

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