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Sèvres Spittoon or Crachoir
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1776
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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A very rare, small hard paste Sèvres spittoon (Crachoir) with a side handle. Marked with interlaced ‘L’s in puce with traces of a crown above to denote hard paste. Decorator’s mark: W(?) for Francois le Vavasseur, active 1753–70 and 1772–6, painter of flowers; and 4 dots in blue for Pierre-Theodore Buteux (Theodore), gilder, 1773–80.
7cm High
9cm Dia. Top
5cm Dia. Base
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Condition
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The handle re-attached, small glaze crack in body above the handle.
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Literature
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Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes; les Origines de Sèvres, P.42, for the first mention of a spittoon (crachoir) in 1752 – 53 & 56 ( not illustrated; and Tamara Préaud & Marcelle Brunet, Sèvres Des Origines à nos jours p. 165, for a larger crachoir (without a handle).Mention of crachoirs are in the inventories for 1770 (15-60 livres ) and 1788 with a model called a ‘gourgoulis’, for the ‘pleasure M. Les Indiens’, (pour le plaire de Mr Les Indiens). It is suggested that these objects were supplied to Tipoo-Saïb. See Brunet, Cahiers de la Ceramique du Verre et Arts du Feu, no 24, 1961, Incidences de L’Ambassade de Tipoo-Saïb (1788), sur la Porcelaines de Sèvres, where this shape is discussed.
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