£1 = €1.16/$1.30
Included in the mixed-discipline sale held in Paris by Daguerre (28% buyer’s premium inc VAT) on March 29 at Drouot was a Sèvres bough pot in soft paste porcelain.
It bore date letters for 1779, the interlaced LL and the marks of the painter Philippe Castel and the gilder Vincent. Two oval cartouches to each side were painted with scenes: a pastoral landscape with a bridge and shepherds and flowers in a garden. The pot is one of a pair purchased by Louis XVI for the cabinet des bains at Versailles, where one of them still remains.