P060 - SEVRES (LATER-DECORATED) BLEU CELESTE GROUND SUGAR-BOWL, COVER AND FIXED STAND

 

The porcelain 18th century, the decoration of later date

Painted with panels of flowers within gilt rocaille surrounds

(the stand cracked at one end and with a stapled repair)

4 ½ in. (11.4 cm) high 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm) long

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 195, plate 131, fig. 437.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960