Antique Pipe Collection

Sevres bleu-celeste ground tobacco jar and cover (Pot a Tabac) date code for 1759. finely painted with young shepherd and his dog sealed by sleeping sheep in a landscape within a tooled gilt cartouche on a bleu-celeste ground, the doomed cover painted with a watering can and spade and a beehive, strapwork loops at the back, blue interfaced Ls and G date letter to base, no decorator′s marks present.  15.5cms high.