SEVRES - Lot 580

SEVRES Round soft-paste porcelain compotier with polychrome decoration in the center of a bouquet of flowers and fruit in a medallion surrounded by gold piastres and flowering branches on a celestial blue ground. Marked: LL interlaced, letter-date FF for 1783, painter's mark François-Marie Barrat and gilder's mark Jean-Pierre Boulanger. 18th century, 1783. D. 20.6 cm. A small chip extended by a crack. The decoration, particularly the gold ornamentation, is similar to that of the service produced in Vincennes for King Louis XV. In the first half of 1784, the merchant Bazin purchased additions to the bleu céleste service, described in the painters' registers as bleu céleste groups of flowers and fruit, including six round compotiers at 42 livres each. It is not known who was the recipient of these complements, nor whether they were supplements for the crown's celestial blue service kept at Trianon or for the service purchased from the King by Choiseul in 1757. These six celestial blue compotiers were painted by Barrat in 1783 (see David Peters, 2015, vol. II, p. 288, and Artists list 3, p. 1311).