CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C. BUTEAUX L'AINE

Name: A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' RETICULATED TRAY (CORBEILLE LOSANGE)
Brand: CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C. BUTEAUX L'AINE
Price: 13000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 16,380

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' RETICULATED TRAY (CORBEILLE LOSANGE)

CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C. BUTEAUX L'AINE

Price Realised USD 16,380

Of typical form with pierced and scrolled sides picked out in gilt above molded corbeille base, the bleu céleste ground centering a reserve finely painted with a military trophy entwined with flowers and foliage within a gilt ciselé scroll surround and trailing flowers
11⁷⁄₈ in. (30.2 cm.) wide

Sir Chester Beatty Collection, Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1955, lot 119.
The Evill/Frost Collection, Part III, Sotheby's, London, 16 June 2011, lot 241.

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Charles Buteaux l'aîné, later père, is recorded as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers at the manufactory from 1756-1782.