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

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A Sèvres Coffee-can and saucer
1782, blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letters EE for 1782, indistinct painter's mark to can perhaps ch for Chabry, dots to saucer 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 to the saucer with a band of meandering gilt berried laurel (very slight rubbing to gilt rims and handle)

Lot Essay

A similar example was sold by Sotheby's on 12 June 1984, lot 200.
The scenes are most probably derived from Boucher, see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (1988), vol. II, pp. 657 and 660, C434-5 for an écuelle, cover and stand with similar decoration.

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