English and European Ceramics and Glass - 13th April 2010

Lot 228

A Sèvres-style large coffee can and saucer

Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £550

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Description

A Sèvres-style large coffee can and saucer, painted with a man in long boots, leading a shying white horse and carrying a bundle of bright blue cloth, a broad border of raised gilt foliage on a cobalt blue ground within bands of berried leaf garlands, interlaced Ls mark and painter's mark, 14.6cm. (2) Provenance: From the estate of Niel Rimington (1928-2009) of Fonthill Old Abbey Estate, Wiltshire.