A fine pair of 18th century Sèvres soft paste porcelain Bottle Coolers (Seaux à bouteille). The Etruscan shaped coolers, each with two loop handles, finely decorated with a turquoise blue ground (Bleu Céleste), very finely painted with polychrome flowers and fruit, reserved within a loose floral trail in tooled and burnished gold.
The later added decoration attributed to the English workshop of Thomas Martin Randall at Madeley c.1830. This little factory specialised in the decoration and re-decoration of imported French wares, as well as the manufacture of porcelains in the same style. A portion of these imported prev revolutionary French wares bore the Sèvres mark and were sold as such. It is also reputed that blank porcelain was imported from Sevres, decorated at Madeley and then shipped back to France only to be sold back to wealthy English aristocrats who were wanting to impress their friends with their Sèvres porcelain!
Spurious Sevres marks to the base of each cooler.
Condition: Excellent, no chips, cracks or crazing. Gilding in excellent order. There is one manufacturing flaw (chip) under the decoration to the base of one cooler as shown.
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Antique Number: SA1101955
Dateline of this antique is Georgian
Height is 17.5cm (6.9inches)
Width is 21cm (8.3inches)
Depth is 21cm (8.3inches)
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