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Sèvres Teapot and Cover
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1760
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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Sèvres teapot and cover, théière Calabre (size c), painted with an elaborate à frise riche decoration in vivid colours. Unusual decoration around the spout.
Painter’s mark LG for Étienne-Henry Le Guay, l'aîné, later père.
13cm High
16cm Wide (handle to spout)
9cm Deep
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Condition
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Small restoration to the front of the spout, glazed manufacturing chip inside the flange of the cover.
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Literature
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Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. II. pl. 577, Teapots, 378-81, for a description of this shape of teapot.
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