A SEVRES FRISE RICHE EGG CUP (COQUETIER)

CIRCA 1768, BLUE INTERLACED L'S, INCISED OO

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A SEVRES FRISE RICHE EGG CUP (COQUETIER)
Circa 1768, blue interlaced L's, incised oo
Typically painted with a wide band of shaded shells and foliate scrolls and garlands, a scalloped enamel blue gilt caillouté band below the gilt dentil rim
1 5/8in. (4.32cm.) high

Lot Essay

The Sèvres sales records note the delivery on 19 May 1770 of six coquetiers frize colorées à M. de Champcenel for the use of the king at the chàteau de Bellevue at a cost of 72 livres. It is possible that the present egg cups is one of these six.

See Collection Charles-Otto Zieseniss; Christie's Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 213 for an example of similar form and decoration dated 1766 and painted by Xhrouet

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