Buteux ice pail carries a cool musical motif
This 18th century Sèvres soft-paste porcelain ice pail (seau à glace) carries the date letter 'O' for 1767 and a tiny painter’s mark of an anchor for Charles Buteux Sr (1719-82).
A former decorator at the rival Chantilly porcelain factory, Buteux arrived at Sèvres in 1745. A d…