A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU JEWELLED COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe) richly applied with entwined ribbons of white, pink and red enamel 'jewels' on gilt circular discs, enclosing circular gilt tooled and 'jewelled' medallions alternating with oval cameos painted en grisaille with portrait heads of three goddesses on the can and four gods on the saucer, gilt dentil rims (restoration to one cameo on saucer, some 'jewels' lacking), gilt interlaced L marks, gilder's marks LG for Le Guay, incised 43 to can and 38A to saucer, circa 1780

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A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU JEWELLED COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe) richly applied with entwined ribbons of white, pink and red enamel 'jewels' on gilt circular discs, enclosing circular gilt tooled and 'jewelled' medallions alternating with oval cameos painted en grisaille with portrait heads of three goddesses on the can and four gods on the saucer, gilt dentil rims (restoration to one cameo on saucer, some 'jewels' lacking), gilt interlaced L marks, gilder's marks LG for Le Guay, incised 43 to can and 38A to saucer, circa 1780

Lot Essay

Étienne-Charles Le Guay working at Sèvres 1778-82 and 1809-40

Cf. a green-ground example sold in Christie's Geneva, 17 November 1980, lot 41 with similar jewelling to the saucer

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