A rare Sèvres écuelle, cover and stand circa 1764

(écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'rond') each piece decorated with a bleu céleste ground reserved back to the white body with a pattern of gilt-edged foliate scrolls springing from a husk band and terminating in pink edged bell-shaped flowerheads, interlaced L's and decorator's mark .F. for Fallot in blue enamel. Small restored chip to rim of stand.

For an écuelle, cover and stand of this form with similar decoration see Pierre Verlet, Sèvres, pl. 53 and p. 211, that piece also with decorator's mark F and with date letter L for 1764.  For a discussion of the work of Fallot, who came to the factory as a decorator of colored grounds in 1764 see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. III, pp. 1032-33.

A cup and saucer with identical decoration was in the Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, sold at Christie's, Paris, December 6, 2001, lot 177.