A SÈVRES APPLE-GREEN GROUND TWO-HANDLED CUP (TASSE À TOILETTE)

Details

A SÈVRES APPLE-GREEN GROUND TWO-HANDLED CUP (TASSE À TOILETTE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S, DATE LETTER H FOR 1758, INCISED Z AND I

Painted in colours with birds perched in branches in wooded landscape vignettes within gilt scroll and floral cartouches, reserved on the apple-green ground and with gilt dentil rim (chip to footrim)

Provenance

The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, Christie's New York, March 21-22, 1991, lot 208

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 456

Lot Essay

For a similar example with bleu lapis ground and also dated 1758, see Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 14 October, 1977- 16 January 1978, fig. 315