Auction Closed
May 22, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
painted after Watteau with vignettes of elegant figures in parkland within moulded quatrefoil cartouches on a ground applied with densely packed blue flowerheads, supported on a base pierced and cast with scrolls, the rim applied with foliage and pendant ribbon bows, the mounts with a spurious c poinçon mark
Height 35.5 cm., 14 in.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected, a result consistent with 18th century manufacture.
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