Property from a Rothschild Family Collection, formerly on loan at Waddesdon Manor (lots 154-168)
A Sèvres porcelain seau à bouteille ordinaire, circa 1771
No reserve
Live auction begins on:
November 19, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Bid
100 GBP
Lot Details
Description
with blue and gilt scroll and shell handles, each side painted with a loose arrangement of flowers and with a flower spray below each handle between blue-line and gilt foliate borders, interlaced L's enclosing date letter S and painter's mark for Pierre-Antoine Méreaud in blue, incised numerals to footrim
18 cm, 7⅛ in. high
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990);
Thence by family descent.
A 1770 seau à bouteille ordinaire painted with flower sprays by Méreaud within the same glue and gilt borders is in the Collection of His Majesty the King and illustrated by Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2009, Vol. II, p. 623, cat. no. 159.
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