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<p>[QUOTE="kentworld, post: 9434374, member: 35"]I took the liberty of posting pix to another forum mostly to satisfy my curiosity. The "BB" was ringing a bell -- incorrect as it turns out. I was thinking Bernard Bloch, but Bourdois & Bloch, a Paris factory, would've been a better bell to ring. Here is the reply to my query: </p><p>Definitely not Sevres. This is a late 19th century piece with an imitation mark. Sevres has not used a hand painted double mark since the 18th century. Probably decorated in Paris. BB could possibly stand for Bourdois & Bloch, Paris. It could also just be that whoever decorated it was trying to make the item look more passable by imitating the Sevres date code for 1779 which is BB. In 1779, Sevres was producing hard paste; however, Sevres hard paste had a crown above it, and the S. is not a Sevres decorator mark. In fact, the S followed by a dot (or sometimes several dots) is a commonly found on late 19th century pieces decorated in the Sevres style. It's a nice piece, well decorated, but definitely not a 1779 Sevres piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kentworld, post: 9434374, member: 35"]I took the liberty of posting pix to another forum mostly to satisfy my curiosity. The "BB" was ringing a bell -- incorrect as it turns out. I was thinking Bernard Bloch, but Bourdois & Bloch, a Paris factory, would've been a better bell to ring. Here is the reply to my query: Definitely not Sevres. This is a late 19th century piece with an imitation mark. Sevres has not used a hand painted double mark since the 18th century. Probably decorated in Paris. BB could possibly stand for Bourdois & Bloch, Paris. It could also just be that whoever decorated it was trying to make the item look more passable by imitating the Sevres date code for 1779 which is BB. In 1779, Sevres was producing hard paste; however, Sevres hard paste had a crown above it, and the S. is not a Sevres decorator mark. In fact, the S followed by a dot (or sometimes several dots) is a commonly found on late 19th century pieces decorated in the Sevres style. It's a nice piece, well decorated, but definitely not a 1779 Sevres piece.[/QUOTE]
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