Lot 428
  • 428

A SÈVRES 'ROSES ET MYRTHES' TRIPLE SALT AND FOOTED MILK JUG 1780 AND CIRCA 1780

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Description

  • heights 3 3/8 and 3 3/4 in.
  • 8.6 and 9.5 cm
(salière triple, pot à lait tripode), each painted with scattered shaded pink rose blossoms, buds and leaves beneath or between borders iron-red berried laurel, the salt affixed with a triple loop handle entwined with a gilt-edged bowknotted ribbon and the milk jug with a gilt-heightened twig-form handle issuing small gilt sprays of flowers and leaves, the salt with interlaced L's, date letter cc for 1780 and painter's mark y for Mme. Bouillat.