Stand
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1760 - 1765
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
23.2 cm (Length)19.8 cm (W)
Place of origin
Sèvres
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Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1529542.1
Summary
Stand, part of an oval quatrefoil ecuelle, cover and stand, soft-paste porcelain, painted and gilded. Made by the Sèvres porcelain factory, France,1760-65.The cover has a white background with blue and gilt feuille de chou edged reserves, two decorated with roses and other flowers and two with quiver and arrows. Shaped entwined handle. Ecuelle - as above but two reserves decorated with a) sword, pike and breastplate, b) lyre and trumpet. Stand as overleaf but two reserves decorated with a) a quiver, arrows and bow, b) sword, dagger and musket.
Full description
Part of a Sèvres oval quatrefoil sugar bowl (sucrier), cover and stand (depicted) painted with flowers and trophies within pattern feuille-de-choux (blue edged ‘cabbage leaf’ panels), marked only with the interlaced L’s in blue enamel, c. 1760-65.The cover has a white background with blue and gilt feuille de chou edged reserves, two decorated with roses and other flowers and two with quiver and arrows. Shaped entwined handle. Ecuelle - as above but two reserves decorated with a) sword, pike and breastplate, b) lyre and trumpet. Stand as overleaf but two reserves decorated with a) a quiver, arrows and bow, b) sword, dagger and musket.
Provenance
Purchased by Ralph Dutton in June 1961, ‘Sevres ecuelle cover and stand, 1760’ from P& K Embden, for £90. (fol. 129). Claimed from the estate of Ralph Dutton, 8th Baron Sherborne, 1985 by the Hon. Miss Joanne Dutton, by whom bequeathed to the National Trust, 1988.
Makers and roles
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , maker