Sèvres porcelain red and gold teapot 1815

Théière étrusque gaudronnée. Bright red and gold ground. Printed crowned interlaced L's mark enclosing a fleur de lys and "Sevres". Gilt mark "20 juin", "qz" for 1815, and BT for the gilder Boitel. Height 15.9 cm.

This shape of teapot was inspired by Antique pottery oil lamps in the Vivant-Denon collection, which had been bought by the comte d'Angiviller for Louis XVI in 1785, and deposited at Sèvres where it remains to this day. See Frédérique Citéra, "Aux origines du néo-classicisme à Sèvres", L'Estampille L'Objet d'Art, December 1991, pp. 52-66.

The shape was first designed in 1813, and this example formed part of a tea service which entered the factory sales room in August 1816 and was sold to the baron Destouches in 1820.

Cover with restored piece to rim.

Stock Ref: WS 253

Price: £6,500