CIRCE 1770, ONE WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER R FOR 1770 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE, BOTH INCISED H

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE ICE CUPS (TASSES A GLACE)
CIRCE 1770, ONE WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER R FOR 1770 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE, BOTH INCISED H
Each of campana form with scroll handles, painted with an exotic bird in a landscape reserved on an oval panel within a gilt ciselé band, the turquoise ground further gilt with entwined oak swags
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; Christie's, New York 21-22 March 1991, lot 275.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2001, lot 205.

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, nos. 441 a-b.

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Lot Essay

The present ice cups and the triple salt in the following lot have traditionally been catalogued as part of the service created for Gustave III of Sweden during his visit to France in 1771. However, closer examination suggests that they are instead from similar services made for either Gustave III's brother, Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland or for the conte Lascaris, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sardinia.

See D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, vol. ii, pps. 449-451, 455-458.

François-Joseph Aloncle, recorded at the factory as a painter of birds, animals and landscapes from 1758 to 1781.

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