A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE ORNITHOLOGICAL DECAGONAL SALAD BOWLS (SALADIERS 'A MORTIER', 2EME GRANDEUR), CIRCA 1800, IRON-RED SEVRES MARK AND INCISED 22 TO EACH

A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE ORNITHOLOGICAL DECAGONAL SALAD BOWLS (SALADIERS 'A MORTIER', 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1800, IRON-RED SEVRES MARK AND INCISED 22 TO EACH
Alterately painted with shaped-oval panels of birds in landscape, identified faintly in iron-red to the underside, alternate with circular medallions enclosing a single rose, all linked with gilt laurel vine, pendant flowers at each angle of the bowl
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1997, lot 36 (one).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2000, lot 34 (the other).