£420
A Sevres soft paste porcelain liqueur bottle cooler (seaux a liqueur ovale), pained mark for 1768, bleu celeste ground, designed by Jean Claude Duplessis for the Louis XV service, ogee rimmed with twin foliate scroll handles, painted with carotuches to each side of putti in clouds, possibly by Charles Nicolas Dodin, within raised gilt cisele Rococo foliate and trellis borders, the underside with incised H and ! painted interlaced foliate Ls and date letter P, 32cm long Note: Duplessi originally designed the bottle cooler for the Vincennes service of Louis XV in 1755 as a 'seaux a liqueur ovale bleu celeste', an example of which sold at Christie's in New York, 5th April 2022, lot 16, which had the same incised ! and H marks to the porcelain. Other examples of the form are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1976.240.2a,b dated 1771 and painted by Francois Aloncle
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