A SÈVRES ROSE MARBRÉ LARGE COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER (gobelet calabre et soucoupe) painted with yokels and companions after Teniers outside buildings and beside a barrel in wooded landscapes, the ground lightly gilt with dots and dashes between gilt line and dentil rims (slight chip to underside rim of saucer), the cup with blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter I for 1761 and painter's mark for Vieillard, incised diamond to cup and 3 to saucer

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A SÈVRES ROSE MARBRÉ LARGE COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER (gobelet calabre et soucoupe) painted with yokels and companions after Teniers outside buildings and beside a barrel in wooded landscapes, the ground lightly gilt with dots and dashes between gilt line and dentil rims (slight chip to underside rim of saucer), the cup with blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter I for 1761 and painter's mark for Vieillard, incised diamond to cup and 3 to saucer

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André-Vincent Vieillard, working period 1752-90

A vase hollandois decorated in the same technique is illustrated by Svend Eriksen, The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain, pp. 152-3, no. 54. The pink ground was applied first and fired, then the blue ground was applied, left to dry and then part scraped away

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