A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER and a lobed stand (gobelet à lait et soucoupe), painted with birds in flight within gilt cartouches of trailing flowers, the chrysanthemum finial enriched with gilding, the rims with gilt dentil bands (footrim chip to stand, chip and associated crack to stand, chips to finial and slight rubbing to gilding), underglaze blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter C of 1755, painter's mark for Etienne Evans, the cup with incised 4
Details
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER and a lobed stand (gobelet à lait et soucoupe), painted with birds in flight within gilt cartouches of trailing flowers, the chrysanthemum finial enriched with gilding, the rims with gilt dentil bands (footrim chip to stand, chip and associated crack to stand, chips to finial and slight rubbing to gilding), underglaze blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter C of 1755, painter's mark for Etienne Evans, the cup with incised 4
the stand 19.5cm. diam. (3)
Provenance
Earl of Rosebery, Sotheby's sale on the premises Mentmore Towers, 24 May 1977, lot 2013
Anon., sale Christie's London, 2 October 1989, lot 230
Exhibited
Winifred Williams, French Porcelain, 3-20 July 1978, no. 3