A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'BOUILLARD' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'BOUILLARD' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

GREY INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q FOR 1769 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR PIERRE, INCISED 3 TO SAUCER

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A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'BOUILLARD' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Grey interlaced L's enclosing date letter Q for 1769 and painter's mark for Pierre, incised 3 to saucer
Painted with pink roses in circular berried laurel cartouches on a gilt caillout bleu cleste ground (2)
Provenance
Vicountess Gage, Firle Place, Sussex
Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 March 1991, lot 259
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 24 February 1997, lot 230
Exhibited
Detroit Institute of Art, 1956, no.482

Lot Essay

Jean-Jacque Pierre, le jeune, active at Svres as a painter of flowers and patterns and as a gilder, 1763-1800.

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