Covered sugar bowl and stand

Sèvres Manufactory (France)

Etienne Evans (French, active 1778–1806)

1759

Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration

DimensionsOverall (Bowl with cover): 11.5 x 15.3 x 11.9 cm (4 1/2 x 6 x 4 11/16 in.)
Overall (stand): 3.3 x 24.2 x 19.6 cm (1 5/16 x 9 1/2 x 7 11/16 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.1809a-c

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

Provenance1759, possibly sold by the Sèvres factory to M. de Beauvoir [see note 1]. Paul Reinach, Paris. 1929, Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris (stock no. 4622); September 20, 1929, sold by Seligmann to Henry Walters (b. 1848 - d. 1931), New York and Baltimore [see note 2]; to his widow, Sarah Green Walters (b. 1848 - d. 1943), Baltimore; April 26, 1941, Mrs. Henry Walters sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 644, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] This sugar bowl and stand may have been one of the two "sucrier et plateaux feuilles de choux" sold at 72 livres each to M. de Beauvoir, September 12-20, 1759. See Jeffrey H. Munger et al., "The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" (Boston, 1992), pp. 173-174, cat. no. 120. [2] That this was acquired from Seligmann is according to the 1941 Parke-Bernet catalogue, p. 139, lot 644. Henry Walters purchased extensively from the Paris and New York branches of the Seligmann galleries; for the sale to him of a Sèvres sugar bowl and tray, see Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Papers, Series I, General Correspondence, Box 99, folder 23, Walters, Henry; and Series 7, Financial Files and Shipping Records, Box 356, folder 1, Paris Office Financial Records, Sales 1913-1929.