Wine bottle cooler
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1810
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain decorated in enamels and gilt with ormolu mounts.
Measurements
401 mm (Height); 290 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Sèvres
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Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 137407
Summary
Wine bottle cooler (seau à bouteille), soft-paste porcelain. Blue (beau bleu) ground with gilt arabesque motifs, round reserve with floral bouquet. Mounted in good early-19th century ormolu mounts of rams heads. No visible marks. Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, France, c.1810. See the comparable example dated 1767 with identical mounts including the original frieze of fruiting vine leaves in Gordon Lang, European Ceramics at Burghley House (1991) cat. 65 p.36.
Provenance
Possibly the 'seau au glace' listed amongst the Sévres porcelain purchased by Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, on 25 May 1819 from M. Peres rue des Bains Chinois, Paris for 700 livres and by family descent.
Makers and roles
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , factory
References
Boulay, 2000: Anthony du Boulay. “French porcelain at Uppark: a re-assessment.” French Porcelain Society 15 (2000), pp.2-28., pp.4-7; Fig. 3 Lang 1991: Gordon Lang, European Ceramics at Burghley House. Burghley: Burghley House Preservation Trust, 1991., p.36 Cat. no. 65