Lot 27
A Pair of Sèvres Porcelain Triple Salts (Salière 'à Trois Compartiments')
Sale 1157 - Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection, Part I
Mar 15, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,500 -
2,500
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$1,386
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Lot Description
A Pair of Sèvres Porcelain Triple Salts (Salière 'à Trois Compartiments')
1759
bearing blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter F and painter’s mark of an anchor for Buteux; modeled as three conjoined tightly fluted baskets with common tripartite bail handle entwined with gilt-edged beau bleu ribbon, the bow as a finial, the beau bleu rims and footrims of each basket ‘whip stitched’ in gilt, the interior of each painted in colors with a flower spray.
Width across base 3 1/2 inches.
Width across base 3 1/2 inches.
This lot is located in Chicago.
Provenance:
The Hillingdon Collection
Adrian Sassoon, London, no. 3651, 13 June 2003 (purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London; with copy of invoice)
Note:
Perhaps best known for his trophy painting, Charles Buteux l'aîné (later père, active 1756-1782) is recorded at Sèvres as a painter, also specializing in figures and flowers. The flowers in the bowls of the present pair of triple-salts will have been among his early works.
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