VINCENNES AND SÈVRES
TWO VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS, one with a gilt scroll and foliage handle, the other with a plain gilt scroll handle, painted with bouquets within palm branch and gilt foliage cartouches between gilt line and dentil rims (the first cup with rim chip and associated crack, repaired chip and footrim chip, one saucer cracked, the other riveted), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date-letter B for 1754 and painter's mark of Boucher, the second cup with painter's mark of 5 dots in a cross for Fontaine (2)

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TWO VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE COFFEE-CUPS AND SAUCERS, one with a gilt scroll and foliage handle, the other with a plain gilt scroll handle, painted with bouquets within palm branch and gilt foliage cartouches between gilt line and dentil rims (the first cup with rim chip and associated crack, repaired chip and footrim chip, one saucer cracked, the other riveted), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date-letter B for 1754 and painter's mark of Boucher, the second cup with painter's mark of 5 dots in a cross for Fontaine (2)

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Étienne-Nicolas Boucher, working period 1754-62
Jacques Fontaine, working periodS 1752-75, 1778-1807

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