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Candlestick (Bougeoir)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, active 1756 - present) (Manufacturer)

1758

soft paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
(18th and 19th Centuries )

The simple but elegant design of this candlestick has been further enhanced by gilding as well as a trailing garland of roses, painted in monochrome blue. This rose decoration may be the work of Louis-Michel de St. Aubin, who worked at the Sèvres manufactory as painter of flowers and lines from the 1750s thought the 1770s (1754-58 and 1760-79).

Inscription

[Factory Mark and Factory Date Mark] painted in blue on underside: [intertwined LLs enclosing] E [for 1758]
[Decorator's Mark] painted in blue on underside: [three dots in a triangular arrangment, possibly for Louis-Michel de St. Aubin]

Provenance

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Collection of William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1909 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.

[1]. This piece is visible in a photograph preserved in the Walters Art Museum Archives of a display of European porcelains in the Walters Art Gallery that was taken around the time Henry Walters opened the Gallery in 1909.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/30/1975	Treatment	cleaned

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Geographies

France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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48.715

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