A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN EGYPTIAN REVIVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE (RUINES D'EGYPT)
A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN EGYPTIAN REVIVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE (RUINES D'EGYPT)
A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN EGYPTIAN REVIVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE (RUINES D'EGYPT)
A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN EGYPTIAN REVIVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE (RUINES D'EGYPT)
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A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN EGYPTIAN REVIVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE (RUINES D'EGYPT)

DATED 1979 AND 1984, THE COLUMNAR SECTION WITH GREEN INTERLACED L'S MARK, BLUE C AND INCISED R-11-79-17, THE REMAINDER WITH IMPRESSED INTERLACED L'S WITHIN OVAL MARKS, MB OR DC, AND A.P.P. FOR THE MODELERS ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER

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A SEVRES BISCUIT PORCELAIN EGYPTIAN REVIVAL SURTOUT DE TABLE (RUINES D'EGYPT)
DATED 1979 AND 1984, THE COLUMNAR SECTION WITH GREEN INTERLACED L'S MARK, BLUE C AND INCISED R-11-79-17, THE REMAINDER WITH IMPRESSED INTERLACED L'S WITHIN OVAL MARKS, MB OR DC, AND A.P.P. FOR THE MODELERS ANNE AND PATRICK POIRIER
Modeled in five sections as collapsing Egyptian ruins, including a pyramid, the Colossus at Memnon and an arcade of gilt enriched columns centering a faux reflecting pool
42 5/8 in. (108.3 cm.) long (5)

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This model was designed by the husband and wife team Anne and Patrick Poirier in 1979. Though inspired by the original Sèvres Egyptian Service, now in Apsley House, London, the duo allowed their own archeological interests to predominate the design. For an example displayed at Hillwood, Washington D.C., see L. Paredes, Sèvres Then and Now, London, 2009, pp. 124-126, fig. 98.

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