Of shaped oval form with scroll handles, the front finely painted with a scene after L'Agréable Leçon by François Boucher within a gilt ciselé oval cartouche and berried laurel, the reverse with a gilt ciselé floral spray
9¹⁄₂ in. (24 cm.) wide

The Collection of Anatoli Nikolaevich Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870), Florence.
The Collection of Count Paul Demidoff (1839-1885), Palais de San Donato, Florence.
Sale of the collections of the Palais de San Donato, Florence, 15 March 1880, lot 463.

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The present lot belonged to one of the most remarkable collections of the 19^thcentury, the Demidoff Collection. Count Anatoli Nikolaevich Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870), was a voracious collector passionate of 18th century art. His nephew and heir, Count Paul Demidoff (1839-1885), organized a landmark sale of the contents of their Florentine villa, San Donato, in 1880, where the present lot was sold as lot 463 for 4100, described as a "Belle jardinière b'eu de roi, pâte tendre, avec large médaillon représentant la Leçon de flûte, d’après Boucher, par Chabry, dont elle porte la signature, et bouquet de roses d’or au revers. Lettre M, c’est-à-dire 1765."
Étienne-Jean Chabry is recorded as a figure painter at the Sèvres manufactory from 1764-1787.