A VINCENNES BLEU CÉLESTE TRAVELLING SERVICE

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A VINCENNES BLEU CÉLESTE TRAVELLING SERVICE
BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTERS B & C FOR 1754 AND 1755, TWO SAUCERS BY TAILLANDIER, ONE CUP AND SAUCER APPARENTLY BY BINET AND THE REMAINING PIECES BY LEVÉ, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

The scalloped bleu céleste ground edged with ciselé gilt garlands of flowers from each point a polychrome flower-spray extending, with gilt dentil rims, comprising:
A teapot and cover (théière calabre) (spout chipped, body cracked)
A sugar-basin and cover (pot à sucre Hébert)
A hot-milk jug and cover (pot à lait Hébert)
Six cups and saucer (gobelets calabre)
In a contemporary tooled and gilt morocco case with crowned monogram (9)

Lot Essay

For a déjeuner of this type see Préaud and Fäy-Hallé, fig. 76. These pieces are among the earliest Levé decorated. He arrived in 1754 and was to remain at Sèvres until 1805.

This service was most certainly put together after it left the factory as the theyères were sold individually of course a marchand could united pieces to suit himself.

In June 1755 for example, Lazare Duvaux sold M. de Genssin: Huit tasses à anses et soucoupes de Vincennes, bleu céleste et guirlandes à 96 L., 768 L.- Le Pot à sucre 120 L. Pieces similar to the present lot