A SEVRES JAUNE JONQUILLE SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 5EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK FOR 1787. PAINTER'S MARK FOR MME. NOUALHIER, GILDER'S MARK FOR MIREY, THE CUP INCISED 47 AND 46, THE SAUCER INCISED 77

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A SEVRES JAUNE JONQUILLE SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 5EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters KK for 1787. painter's mark for Mme. Noualhier, gilder's mark for Mirey, the cup incised 47 and 46, the saucer incised 77
Painted in colours, the saucer with a quiver of arrows beside a basket of flowers, the wide border and the cup with circular panels enclosing acrostics reserved on the pale yellow ground painted with trailing flowering foliage and blue urns supported on puce-lined pedestals entwined with flowers
Mirey, Franois
Noulhier, Antoinette-Marie

Provenance

The Property of a Nobleman; Christie's, London, 4 February 1980, lot 51 (#550 to Winifred Williams)
Private Collection, gift Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 123

Lot Essay

The acrostics on the cup can be read as 'Elle a mon coeur' and 'Il respire pour elle', those on the saucer are more problematic.
For other similar examples see the Collection of Dr. William P. Harbeson and sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 4 April 1998, lot 259 and Liana Paredes Arend, Svres Porcelain at Hillwood, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 56, fig 35.

Antoinette-Marie Noualhier, recorded at Svres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1762-circa 1798.

Franois Mirey, recorded at Svres as a gilder, 1788-1792

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