A SEVRES COFFEE CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER BB FOR 1779, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BOUCHET, THE SAUCER INCSIED 45, THE CUP 3 AND 3A
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A SEVRES COFFEE CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter BB for 1779, painter's mark for Bouchet, the saucer incsied 45, the cup 3 and 3a
Painted with oval panels of shipping scenes reserved within gilt cisel bands on the white ground further decorated with a band of green ribbon entwined around a pink line, the whole between bands of landscape vignettes and gilt cisel geometric decoration (2)
Provenance
Collection d'un amateur franais, Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 March 1990, lot 159
Lot Essay
Jean Bouchet, active at Svres as a painter of landscapes, animals, birds, figures, patterns and as a gilder, 1757-1793.
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