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500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
21 - 22 October 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU HOT-MILK JUG AND COVER (POT A LAIT 'HEBERT')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter T for 1772, painter's mark for Evans
Of baluster form with entwined branch handle, the conforming cover with ranunculus finial, each side painted with a bird in a lush landscape reserved within an oval tooled gilt band, the cover, neck and lower portion further gilt with a trailing laurel vine between gilt lines
5½ in. (13.9 cm.) high (2)
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lot 535)
Winthrop Brown, New Hampshire.
By descent through the family; Christie's, New York, 23 May 1995, lot 33.
The Pompey Collection; Christie's, New York, 32 May 2002, lot 45.