Lot Essay
Franois-Joseph Aloncle, active at Svres as a painter of birds, animals and landscapes, 1758-1781.
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BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L FOR 1764, PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE, THE CUP INCISED OO AND F, THE SAUCER INCISED S
Details
A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU FOND TAILLANDIER TEACUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'HERBERT', 2EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter L for 1764, painter's mark for Aloncle, the cup incised OO and F, the saucer incised S
The cup of inverted pear-shape with entwined branch handles, the cup and saucer each richly painted with a panel of a bird in a landscape reserved within a gilt cisel band on the bleu nouveau ground further gilt in a band below the rim with dotted circlets and a berried vine entwined around a gilt line (2)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter L for 1764, painter's mark for Aloncle, the cup incised OO and F, the saucer incised S
The cup of inverted pear-shape with entwined branch handles, the cup and saucer each richly painted with a panel of a bird in a landscape reserved within a gilt cisel band on the bleu nouveau ground further gilt in a band below the rim with dotted circlets and a berried vine entwined around a gilt line (2)
Provenance
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, lot 294
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1990, lot 169
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1990, lot 169