A Sèvres bleu nouveau coffee-can and saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe)

1780, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS CC FOR 1780, PAINTER'S MARK G-D. FOR GÉRARD AND GILDER'S MARK HP FOR PRÉVOST, INCISED 36A/6 TO CAN AND 28R TO SAUCER

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A Sèvres bleu nouveau coffee-can and saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe)
1780, blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letters CC for 1780, painter's mark G-D. for Gérard and gilder's mark HP for Prévost, incised 36a/6 to can and 28R to saucer
The can with scroll handle and finely painted with The Three Graces beneath purple drapery in a wooded landscape within an oval chased gilt band reserve with garlands of flowers and palm branches, the saucer painted with Cupid with his bow and arrow seated on a mound in a landscape within a circular reserve with similar gilding, the garlands and palm branches tied with ribbons, the borders with bands of gilt berried myrtle and gilt line rims (very minor rubbing to rim of saucer)

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's 12 June 1984, lot 191.

Lot Essay

Henri-Martin Prévost, gilder, working at the factory from 1757-1797.
Claude-Charles Gérard working at the factory 1771-1825.

The artist's ledgers for the 10th October 1780 record a piece Les trois Graces, Gerard, 36l L. Gérard began work as an apprentice and rose to become chef du four de peinture and in 1804 chef des peintres.

The same subjects of The Three Graces appears on the central vase of a garniture in the Henry Huntingdon Collection, San Merino, California, illustrated in the Catalogue (1961), fig. 106; and on a coffee-cup and saucer sold in these Rooms on 2 February 1976, lot 79.

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