Sèvres - Fruit Bowl Shell In Soft Porcelain - Eighteenth Century

Shell compote in soft Sèvres porcelain with polychrome decoration of detached bouquets, blue nets and combs, gold nets and wolf teeth. blue mark with intertwined Ls and hollow mark. Letter date Z for 1777 painter's mark of Mrs. Morin for the flowers (active at the Sèvres factory between 1774 and 1790) and Théodore Buteux for the blue peingnés (active at the Sèvres factory between 1765 and 1772 then from 1773 to 1780) .

Sèvres porcelain comes from one of the most important factories in Europe. Founded in 1740, it remains world famous today. The Sèvres factory was developed thanks to the patronage of Louis XV under the influence of Madame de Pompadour. Originally located in Vincennes then moved to Sèvres in 1756, it produced so-called soft porcelain then hard porcelain following the discovery of a Kaolin deposit near Limoges and marketed from 1770. Over the political regimes it is found on all royal, imperial or presidential tables. Sèvres continually produced fashionable new designs which were widely admired and imitated.