A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'FEUILLE DE CHOUX' ET SOUCOUPE)

CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G, PAINTER'S DAGGER MARK FOR ETIENNE EVANS TO SAUCER, CUP INCISED JC (?), SAUCER INCISED TT

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A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'FEUILLE DE CHOUX' ET SOUCOUPE)
CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G, PAINTER'S DAGGER MARK FOR ETIENNE EVANS TO SAUCER, CUP INCISED JC (?), SAUCER INCISED tt
Moulded with leaf-shaped gilt-edged panels painted with vignettes of birds in landscape (minor wear to gilding, slight scratching to saucer)

Provenance

The Collection of Hugh Burton-Jones, acquired in the 1930s or 1940s.
By descent to his daughter, Mrs. K. Gifford-Scott.
Property of the Executors of the Late Mrs. K. Gifford-Scott; sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1984, lot 183.

Literature

Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, Vol. II, p. 556, no. C371, footnote 2C (unillustrated).

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Lot Essay

An adaptation of the 'Calabre' shape the 'feuille de choux' cup and saucer was introduced in 1756 with examples dating from 1756 to around 1760-63. Most are decorated with a ground colour with the leaf-shaped reserves painted with either birds or flowers. For an example in the Wallace Collection see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. II, p. 555, no. C371.

Etienne Evans was a painter of birds, animals and flowers, active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1752 to 1807.

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