Painted with birds in flight and perched on branches within elaborate gilt foliate and scrollwork cartouches, with gilt dentil rims
Ecuelle: 8³⁄₈ in. (21.3 cm) wide overall
Stand: 9¹⁄₄ in. (23.5 cm) diameter

Acquired by George Byng M.P. (1764 - 1847) for Wrotham Park from Christie’s, London, April 1836;
By descent to his nephew George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, the son of John Byng, created 1st Earl of Strafford of the third creation;
Thence by descent to the 6th Earl of Strafford.

List of Furniture, Porcelain, Paintings & C., purchased by George Byng Esq., for Wrotham Park, 1816-43, 'April 1836 Christie's An Ecuelle Cover and Stand of Sevres Bleu du Roi - painted in 7 medallions of birds £18 0s 0d.'
1898 The Earl of Strafford, Insurance, Schedule of Pictures, Articles of Vertu etc. at Wrotham Park, 'A Gros blue old Sevre Ecuelle shaped bowl cover and stand decorated birds'.

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This form of écuelle is first mentioned in the factory records (in four sizes) in 1752, with the title appearing in the sales records the following year, 1753. Louis-Denis Armand l'aîné was one of the factory's foremost bird painters, who was recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1745 to 1788. Armand was one of the higest paid artists working at the factory and his hand is evident on many important commissions decorated with birds, and on components for the finest dinner services. A bleu lapis ground example with closely related bird decoration is held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, museum no. 89.DE.44.