Sèvres Porcelain
Wine Glass Cooler – Monteith, 1797
W.32 cm
W.12 5/8 in
W.12 5/8 in
3006
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Of hard-paste porcelain with crenellated edges for wine glasses to cool in iced water, upside-down. From a dinner service decorated with this very unusual pattern of rosettes and a simulated porphyry ground.
Marked Sèvres and by the painter Louis Gouffé, from a service described in the factory’s sales registers as Porphyre et rosettes étrusques’.
Note: An oval liquer decanter cooler (seau ovale), with a fixed central division from this service is also available.
Sold to a Private Collection, USA, 2001