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A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET COUVERCLE)
- BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I FOR 1761, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CORNAILLES, INCISED D

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET COUVERCLE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I FOR 1761, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CORNAILLES, INCISED D
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    $7,000 - $10,000

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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 GREEN-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET COUVERCLE)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter I for 1761, painter's mark for Cornailles, incised d
Oviform, the cover with ranunculus finial, the shoulder with a shaped green band edged with gilt ciselé foliate scrolls and grasses issuing flower sprays, a band of flowering vine encircling the spout
5 in. (12.6 cm.) high (2)

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Provenance

Hugh Burton-Jones, acquired in the 1930s or 1940s.
By descent to his daughter, Mrs. K. Gifford-Scott.
Property of the Executors of the Late Mrs. K. Gifford-Scott; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1984, lot 185.
With Michele Beiny, New York.
The Mingledorff-Mitchell Collection.

Lot Notes

Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles, recorded as a flower painter and gilder at Vincennes and Sèvres 1755-1800.

The present teapot is from a déjeuner of which part is retained in the Museo Quirinale, Rome.

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