VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 1ER GRANDEUR)

Details
A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 1ER GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1770, GILDER'S SCRIPT B FOR BOULANGER, THE CUP INCISED 21/A 38, THE SAUCER INCISED 111C, THE SAUCER PROBABLY LATER DECORATED

Each painted with a harbour scene within a gilt ciselé band, the border gilt with a heavy garland
6in. (7.6cm.) high, the cup; 6in. (15.2cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
Provenance
G. Winthrop Brown, New Hampshire
By descent through the family

Lot Essay

Jean-Pierre Boulanger, père was active at Vincennes and Sèvres as a gilder 1754-1785

The scene on the cup may be by Jean-Louis Morin (active 1754-1787) to whom can be attributed a garniture of three vases in the Wallace Collection painted with similar marine scenes and also gilt by Boulanger and another in the collection of Upton House, Oxfordshire painted by Morin and gilt by Prévost. Cf. Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, nos. 300-302; also Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, no. 145

The painting on the saucer, although similar, appears to be by a different hand.