A SEVRES FOND ROSE TAILLANDIER COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS EE FOR 1782, INDISTINCT PAINTER'S MARK TO CAN, PERHAPS CH FOR CHABRY, DOTS TO SAUCERS AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE L MARK, INCISED 48/3 TO CAN AND 37 TO SAUCER

細節

A SEVRES FOND ROSE TAILLANDIER COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE)
Blue interlaced L's mark enclosing date letters EE for 1782, indistinct painter's mark to can, perhaps CH for Chabry, dots to saucers at the intersections of the L mark, incised 48/3 to can and 37 to saucer
The can painted with Cupid holding a sickle and lying among corn, the saucer with Cupid playing a pipe seated on yellow drapery before two sheep, in landscape vignettes within gilt band reserves on a pink oeil-de-perdrix ground with a garland of berried laurel suspended from gilt 'nails', the underside of the saucer with a band of meandering gilt berried laurel (2)

來源

Property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 24 February 1997, lot 32

拍場告示

This cup and saucer were purchased as lot 232 from the Christie's London sale sited in the catalogue entry.

拍品專文

The scenes are most probably derived from Boucher. See Rosalind Saville, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Svres Porcelain (1988), vol.II, pp.657 and 660, C434-5 for an cuelle, cover and stand with similar decoration