Lot Essay
The 3 and dots mark is for an unidentified flower painter active at the Sèvres manufactory from 1756-61 and in 1764.
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CIRCA 1761, THE SAUCER WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LATTER H ABOVE AN UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, INCISED BACKWARDS S, THE CUP WITH FAINT TRACES OF AN L'S MARK, INCISED OO
Details
A SEVRES PORCELAIN PINK-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET ‘BOUILLARD’ ET SOUCOUPE, 1RE GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1761, THE SAUCER WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LATTER H ABOVE AN UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, INCISED BACKWARDS S, THE CUP WITH FAINT TRACES OF AN L'S MARK, INCISED OO
Each painted with a loose bouquet reserved within a gilt cartouche of flowers and grasses, the gilding enriched in carmine
5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) diameter, the saucer
CIRCA 1761, THE SAUCER WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LATTER H ABOVE AN UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, INCISED BACKWARDS S, THE CUP WITH FAINT TRACES OF AN L'S MARK, INCISED OO
Each painted with a loose bouquet reserved within a gilt cartouche of flowers and grasses, the gilding enriched in carmine
5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) diameter, the saucer
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Deane Johnson; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 9 December 1972, lot 24.
Dr. Annela Brown; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 23 April 1977, lot 62.
Dr. Annela Brown; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 23 April 1977, lot 62.
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