A St. Cloud silver-mounted water jug and cover, circa 1730. Photo Sotheby's

in the white, applied with trailing branches of prunus blossom, Wilfrid Evill Collection Label; 20cm., 8in. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 GBP. Lot Sold: 7,500 GBP

For a similar example, together with its matching basin in the Musée de la Céramique in Rouen, see the Bard Graduate Center exhibition catalogue, The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ed. Bertrand Rondot, 1999, pp. 170-171, no. 87

Sotheby's. The Evill/Frost Collection III. London | 16 Jun 2011 www.sothebys.com