CIRCA 1786, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ABOVE DATE LETTERS II FOR 1786 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLARD, THE TRAY INCISED 6, THE CUPS / AND 44, THE SAUCERS 41

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU 'DECOR DENTELLE' PART SERVICE (DEJEUNER DU ROI)
CIRCA 1786, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ABOVE DATE LETTERS II FOR 1786 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLARD, THE TRAY INCISED 6, THE CUPS / AND 44, THE SAUCERS 41
Each piece reserved on the bright blue ground gilt overall with seeded 'cracked ice' with a gilt and carmine-beaded quatrefoil cartouche enclosing a variant scene from Blanchard's 1784 assent in a hot air balloon and with lozenges enclosing flower-heads, the rims edged with a herringbone band, comprising:
A shaped oval tray (plateau du roi, 1^e^r^e grandeur), 11 in. (28 cm.) long
Two cups and saucers (gobelets 'Litron' et ses soucoupes, 4^e^m^e grandeur) (5)

Provenance

Collection d'un amateur sur l'aéronautique; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 November 1970, lot 117.

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Lot Essay

The present service is one of three déjeuner du roi recorded between 1784 and 1786 commemorating the hot air balloon flights of brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in 1783 or of Blanchard near the town of Sèvres the following year. Extant examples are almost all painted by Viellard, the ballooning scenes within lace-like borders.

André-Vincent Viellard, père, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-1790.

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