SÈVRES - Lot 219

SÈVRES Covered oval sugar bowl and an oval display stand in soft porcelain decorated with flowers in gold-framed reserves on a celestial blue background, handle in the form of interlaced branches. Sugar bowl marked LL entrelacés, letter date U for 1773, painter Tandart doreur Vandé. Display stand marked LL entrelacés, letter date D 1757, painter Guillaume Noël and Tandart. Tray from 1756. The porcelain 18th century, the decoration later L. 15.2 cm (sugar pot) L. 23.5 cm; 19.8 cm (display stand) (probably over-decorated, gold wear) Provenance: Couton & Veyrac, lot 155 of the sale of April 4, 1995, expert André Augier. The factory in Vincennes moved to Sèvres in 1756 on the advice of Madame de Pompadour, which means that this sugar bowl dates from the first year of activity of the Sèvres factory.