A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU GROUND EWER AND BASIN ( Pot à eau à la Romaine uni et Jatte ), the ewer of pear-shape with a helmet-shaped lip and foliage moulded handle on a quatrefoil stepped foot, one side painted with a shepherdess and her flock being approached by a country youth, the other side with a shepherd and his companion and a youth on one knee offering her flowers both in rural landscapes within broad chased gilt bands bordered by trailing flowers and fronds tied by ribbons, a garland of gilt flowers tied with a ribbon below the spout, the top rim with a band of gilt berried laurel and the lower rim with a band of gilt scrolls and dots, the basin of lobed oval form painted with a central oval panel of a shepherdess and a boy feeding a sheep in a rural landscape and a lobed panel either end with pastoral trophies and trophies of the arts in landscapes, the gilding similar to the ewer and the exterior with trailing laurel hung from gilt bosses, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters CC for 1780, painter's mark G-D. for C.-C. Gérard, the ewer with gilder's mark HP for H.-M. Prévost and the same mark erased from the basin, incised 14/a and a.25 to ewer and 32 to basin the ewer 23.2cm. high the basin 36.5cm. wide
A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU GROUND EWER AND BASIN ( Pot à eau à la Romaine uni et Jatte ), the ewer of pear-shape with a helmet-shaped lip and foliage moulded handle on a quatrefoil stepped foot, one side painted with a shepherdess and her flock being approached by a country youth, the other side with a shepherd and his companion and a youth on one knee offering her flowers both in rural landscapes within broad chased gilt bands bordered by trailing flowers and fronds tied by ribbons, a garland of gilt flowers tied with a ribbon below the spout, the top rim with a band of gilt berried laurel and the lower rim with a band of gilt scrolls and dots, the basin of lobed oval form painted with a central oval panel of a shepherdess and a boy feeding a sheep in a rural landscape and a lobed panel either end with pastoral trophies and trophies of the arts in landscapes, the gilding similar to the ewer and the exterior with trailing laurel hung from gilt bosses, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters CC for 1780, painter's mark G-D. for C.-C. Gérard, the ewer with gilder's mark HP for H.-M. Prévost and the same mark erased from the basin, incised 14/a and a.25 to ewer and 32 to basin the ewer 23.2cm. high the basin 36.5cm. wide
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