Pate sur Pate Box

This is a superb and very rare box made by Sevres in 1945. It is decorated on the top with a nice and rather large pate sur pate scene of a putto representing winter. He is half naked building a fire. An amazing quality piece and much rarer than pate sur pate from Meissen or KPM. One actually very rarely sees the Sevres ones! On the rim of the lid there is a rope design that is also pate sure pate and the bottom part has stars and the zodia symbols on it that are also in pate sur pate as is a ring around the top part of this piece. The ground color of the box is hard to describe - kind of like an mottled celadon type color - very neat looking. The top and bottom rim of the bottom part have a gold trim with the top one going inside a bit as well. The lid has a gold ring around the scene as well as on the part that sits inside the bottom part. The piece are in superb condition with one very tiny missing spot of gilding on the bottom part which is hard to spot and a tiny chip on the lip of the top part that is gilded and goes inside the bottom part. It is also very small and does not show at all when the lid is in place. The box is 3.25 inches tall and 5.625 inches in diameter. It is marked underneath with the green Sevres mark as shown as well as the Decore a Sevres mark, the usual impressed marks one finds on authentic Sevres of this period and the artist signature - CF J' esp. Leduc .3 44. or something along those lines. Adrien Leduc was I think their head designer and worked at Sevres from 1919 until 1948 so quite a while. Please email me for more information or other pictures.