CIRCA 1775-1785, ALMOST CERTAINLY PAINTED BY L'ECOT, THE COVER A LATER ENGLISH PORCELAIN REPLACEMENT POSSIBLY BY MINTON, THE ORMOLU SOCLE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN CLARET-GROUND VASE AND A COVER (VASE BOIZOT)
CIRCA 1775-1785, ALMOST CERTAINLY PAINTED BY L'ECOT, THE COVER A LATER ENGLISH PORCELAIN REPLACEMENT POSSIBLY BY MINTON, THE ORMOLU SOCLE 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Oviform with pistol handles, reserved along the shoulder with a gilt scroll band, painted front and back with chinoiserie figures reserved within canted rectangular gilt-edged cartouches, the porcelain socle replaced with an ormolu example
14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high (2)

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN CLARET-GROUND VASE AND A COVER (VASE BOIZOT)
CIRCA 1775-1785, ALMOST CERTAINLY PAINTED BY L'ECOT, THE COVER A LATER ENGLISH PORCELAIN REPLACEMENT POSSIBLY BY MINTON, THE ORMOLU SOCLE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Recorded at Sèvres as a painter specializing in Chinoiseries, arabesques, and butterflies and as a gilder, 1761-1764, 1772-1800, Louis-François L'Ecot was arguably the most gifted of the only two or three artists capable of executing the delicate Chinoiserie decoration found on the present vase.

See T. Préaud,"Sèvres, la Chine et les "chinoiseries" au XVIIIe siècle", Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, no. 47, 1989, pp. 39-50 for a detailed discussion of chinoiserie decoration at Sèvres and a listing of known déjeuners with such decoration. See also R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 624-628.

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