A Paris (Dagoty) gold-ground ewer and basin, circa 1810-15

modelled as shells with fluted bands, the handle of the ewer formed as a curving branch of red coral, the basin with stencilled Manufacture/ de S.M L'Impératice/ P.L. DAGOTY/ A PARIS, the ewer with traces of Dagoty mark in gilding,

Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Barbara Mundt, Nineteenth-Century European Porcelain, London, 1983, p. 117, pl. 199;
Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Dagoty à Paris, La manufacture de porcelain de l'impératrice, Paris, 2006, p. 121, no. 105.

In overall good appearance. There is wear to the gilding along rim and some flakes to interior band at handle. The basin has some wear to interior consistent with ewer resting in place; some very minor wear and surface scratching to body and rim.
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Faÿ-Hallé and Mundt, op. cit., illustrate a page from the Dagoty pattern-book from the early 19th century which shows wares modelled in naturalistic forms including further pieces of shell and coral type.