A Sèvres ecuelle, cover and stand (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale'), dated 1771Property from Crewe Hall (lots 155 - 163)A Sèvres ecuelle, cover and stand (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale'), dated 1771Of the fourth size, each painted by Jean-Charles Sioux (l'ainé) in blue with floral bands and feathered and diaper borders and gilt foliate bands, gilt-edged rims, the entwined handles on the side and the branch handle on the cover embellished in gilding, the stand: 18.3cm diam.; height of ecuelle: 10.3cm, interlaced LL monogram between date letter S and painter's mark of a crown in blue (3)Provenance:Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe, FSA FRS (1812-1894), Crewe Hall, Cheshire;Thence by descentSee G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol. III (2009), no. 278, for a discussion of the same marks on a similarly decorated water jug, cover and basin also painted in 1771 by Sioux.