A pair of Sèvres wine glass coolers 1771

seaux à verre ordinaire, decorated with a green ground reserved with mixed flower sprays, one painted by Bertrand, the other by Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles, the reserves edged with gilded palms and flower garlands,

The Bertrand glass cooler has a minute flake of gold lacking to the gilded line around the rim. It also has two horizontal firing cracks, approximately 3cm long, to the interior corresponding to one of the handles on the exterior.
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The decoration of these seaux and those in lots 222 and 223, follows the same scheme as the Bertin service plates in lot 219 dated 1763.  It is possible they were ordered as later additions to the service, although there is no documentary evidence for this.  For a discussion of this group, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century,  Vol. II, list 63-3 p. 350, and list 71-8, p. 468.

A pair of similar seaux, dated 1771 were sold in these rooms 2nd June, 2005, lot 58, another pair dated 1770 and 1771 were sold in these rooms, 12th June 2001, lot 206.  A seau à demi-bouteille with the same decoration, also dated 1771 was sold at Bonhams 13th May 2009, lot 237