A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, DATE LETTERS KK FOR 1787 BELOW, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLIARD, PÈRE, THE CUP INCISED 47 AND LH

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A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's mark, date letters KK for 1787 below, painter's mark for Vielliard, père, the cup incised 47 and LH
Painted in puce camaïeu with a continuous landscape of a fortress by a harbor above the pale-yellow ground edged in cobalt blue and painted with a band of shaded purple laurel entwined with zig-zag
2¾in. (6.9cm.) high, the cup, 5¼in. (13.3cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)
Provenance
With Newman & Newman Antiques, Ltd., London

Lot Essay

André-Vincent Vielliard, père, active at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-1790.

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