Jan 29, 2025 10:00 EST
Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture
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Sèvres Porcelain (Hard Paste) Two-Handled Bowl and Stand (Ecuelle Ronde Et Son Plateau Ovale)
Estate / Collection: The Dalva Brothers Collection
Circa 1778
In the chinoiserie style with shaped oval cartouches enclosing painted and enriched figures at various leisure pursuits, including: smoking, drinking, taking tea and making wine, the bowl flanked by entwined vine handles, the reserves painted and enriched with fantasy bird among flowering foliage, birds in flight and colorful insects, iron-red crowned interlaced L’s marks enclosing the date letters AA, painter’s mark LG for Le Grand, various incised mark.
Width of stand 8 inches (20.3 cm)
For a Sèvres plate decorated by Le Grand with chinoiserie figures on a black ground in imitation of Asian lacquer, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 62.165.8. For a pink and mint-ground gobelet litron also by Le Grand, see Christie’s, New York, 22 October 2020, lot 59.
Though a few select pieces are extant on a variety of rare ground colors including pale-lilac, deep-maroon, pale-blue and white, chinoiserie decoration of this period reserved against a jade-green ground is exceedingly rare.
Louis Antoine Le Grand, fils, père, is recorded as a gilder and painter of chinoiseries, figures, birds, flowers and patterns at Sèvres: 1772-1779.
$4,000 - $5,000
Estate / Collection: The Dalva Brothers Collection
Circa 1778
In the chinoiserie style with shaped oval cartouches enclosing painted and enriched figures at various leisure pursuits, including: smoking, drinking, taking tea and making wine, the bowl flanked by entwined vine handles, the reserves painted and enriched with fantasy bird among flowering foliage, birds in flight and colorful insects, iron-red crowned interlaced L’s marks enclosing the date letters AA, painter’s mark LG for Le Grand, various incised mark.
Width of stand 8 inches (20.3 cm)
Notes:
For a Sèvres plate decorated by Le Grand with chinoiserie figures on a black ground in imitation of Asian lacquer, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 62.165.8. For a pink and mint-ground gobelet litron also by Le Grand, see Christie’s, New York, 22 October 2020, lot 59.
Though a few select pieces are extant on a variety of rare ground colors including pale-lilac, deep-maroon, pale-blue and white, chinoiserie decoration of this period reserved against a jade-green ground is exceedingly rare.
Louis Antoine Le Grand, fils, père, is recorded as a gilder and painter of chinoiseries, figures, birds, flowers and patterns at Sèvres: 1772-1779.
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Cover missing, residue to ecuelle bowl interior rim, minor chip to footrim, light wear to gilding.
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Auction: Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture, Jan 29, 2025
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Auction of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings and The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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Auction of English & Continental Silver and English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts on Wednesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle's auction on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 will offer 19th Century & Old Master Paintings & Drawings as well as The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury.
The auction onWednesday, January 29 at 10am will feature English & Continental Decorative Arts and English & Continental Silver.
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