A SÈVRES BLUE NOUVEAU COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobélet litron et soucoupe), the can painted with two boys playing stringed instruments and a girl at a harpsicord singing and the saucer with a child artist at an easel painting a posing naked girl and a boy drawing within gilt line panels, the ground with luxuriant entwined gilt foliage (two minute footrim chips to saucer), blue interlaced L's mark enclosing an ampersand perhaps for 1778, painter's mark for Dodin and gilder's mark for Le Guay, incised 36/, to can and 37 to saucer, circa 1778

A SÈVRES BLUE NOUVEAU COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobélet litron et soucoupe), the can painted with two boys playing stringed instruments and a girl at a harpsicord singing and the saucer with a child artist at an easel painting a posing naked girl and a boy drawing within gilt line panels, the ground with luxuriant entwined gilt foliage (two minute footrim chips to saucer), blue interlaced L's mark enclosing an ampersand perhaps for 1778, painter's mark for Dodin and gilder's mark for Le Guay, incised 36/, to can and 37 to saucer, circa 1778

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A SÈVRES BLUE NOUVEAU COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobélet litron et soucoupe), the can painted with two boys playing stringed instruments and a girl at a harpsicord singing and the saucer with a child artist at an easel painting a posing naked girl and a boy drawing within gilt line panels, the ground with luxuriant entwined gilt foliage (two minute footrim chips to saucer), blue interlaced L's mark enclosing an ampersand perhaps for 1778, painter's mark for Dodin and gilder's mark for Le Guay, incised 36/, to can and 37 to saucer, circa 1778

拍品專文

Charles-Nicolas Dodin working 1754-1802

The scene on the can is taken from one of the overdoors painted by Carl Van Loo for Madame du Pompadour's Château de Bellevue and engraved by Fessard. Louis XVI aunts displayed eighteen cups and saucers with different decoration on two tables between the windows of the Salon d'hiver at Bellevue, see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, p. 489

Cf. a similar example sold Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1976, lot 20, the can also painted by Dodin with an identical scene