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A VINCENNES OR EARLY SEVRES GREEN-GROUND COVERED EWER AND BASIN ( POT A L'EAU TOURNE ET JATTE OVALE DE POT A L'EAU, 2 E M E GRANDEUR )
1756-7, ELABORATE BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS D, IN UPPERCASE TO THE BASIN AND IN LOWER CASE TO THE EWER, PAINTER'S MARK B, PERHAPS FOR BARBOT, INCISED BP INSIDE FOOTRIM OF BASIN, CO (?) AND 4 TO EWER
A VINCENNES OR EARLY SEVRES GREEN-GROUND COVERED EWER AND BASIN ( POT A L'EAU TOURNE ET JATTE OVALE DE POT A L'EAU, 2 E M E GRANDEUR ) 1756-7, ELABORATE BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS D, IN UPPERCASE TO THE BASIN AND IN LOWER CASE TO THE EWER, PAINTER'S MARK B, PERHAPS FOR BARBOT, INCISED BP INSIDE FOOTRIM OF BASIN, Co (?) AND 4 TO EWER The baluster ewer painted with a generous spray of grapes, fruit and flowers within a mirror-shaped cartouche gilt with exotic birds perched among scrolls garlanded with flowers and issuing diaper pattern and folaite panels, the spout gilt with an anthemion leaf among strapwork on a seeded sections edged with scrolls, the white and gilt handle with leaf-moulded upper terminal the cover with gilt flowers, scrolls, folaige and a diaper-pattern section, with hinged silver-gilt mounted with shell thumbpiece and acanthus leaf sections covering the top of the handle, the basin painted with fruit and flower-sprays within mirror-shaped cartouches gilt with border among foliage, scrolls and trailing branches issuing patterned panels edged with scrolls, the mottled ground gilt with birds in flight and a posy of flowersm below a gilt dentil rim, the plain exterior painted with swags of flowers (two small footrim chips to basin) The ewer -- 6½ in. (16.6 cm.) high, the basin -- 10 1/8 in. (28.8 cm.) wide