A rare Sevres Hard-Paste Porcelain Sugar Bowl & Cover c.1793-95

Code: 10150

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A rare Sevres Hard-Paste Porcelain Sugar Bowl & Cover (Sucrier Boizot) c.1793-95. Each side painted very finely painted with panels of flowers in a garden setting and a classical urn, on a claret ground and a geometric pattern gilt band, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a baluster-shaped finial with moulded palmette terminals.  The inside of the bowl and the lid are decorated with a solid gold ground. Impressed mark to the base.

See Bonhams for a similar Sugar Bowl & Cover: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26812/lot/169/

Another sugar bowl and cover of this shape is in the Royal Collection, illustrated in Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. III (2009), no.253.

Geoffrey de Bellaigue mentions and illustrates a drawing surviving in the Sèvres archives that is inscribed 'sucrier Boizot fait l'an deux de La Rèpublique française [1793-4] il y en n'a 3 autres audesous qui au lieu dune Volute Sur Le Couvercle Est un Bouton'. Two plaster models also survive and are illustrated by de Bellaigue, p.902.

Condition: Small chip to the base, two chips to the inside flange of the lid and some wear to the gilt in places