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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR ET 5EME GRANDEUR)

DATE LETTER KK FOR 1787 TO BOTH, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR BARRAT TO THE SMALLER, EVANS TO THE LARGER

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE, 3^E^M^E GRANDEUR ET 5^E^M^E GRANDEUR)
DATE LETTER KK FOR 1787 TO BOTH, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR BARRAT TO THE SMALLER, EVANS TO THE LARGER
The smaller a bit paler, painted with confronting C-scrolls forming cartouches and interlaced with garlands, between blue vines, puce dot and puce dentil bands, gilt dentil rims; the larger with peacocks and smaller birds perched on berried branches, within blue foliate bands and an iron-red line border, a butterfly to the saucer's center
4¾ in. (12 cm.) and 3 in. (7.6 cm.) diameter, the saucers (4)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 24 February 1978, lot 46 (the smaller).
The Marchioness of Cholmondeley; Christie's, London, 30 June 1980, lot 17 (the larger).
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge, nos. 72 and 79.

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Lot Essay

François-Marie Barrat, recorded at Sèvres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1769-91 and 1795-96.
Etienne Evans, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of birds, animals and flowers, 1752-86.

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