A SÈVRES GREEN-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'COUVERT', 1ER GRANDEUR ET SOUCOUPE 'LITRON', 2EME GRANDEUR)

The Property of A NEW YORK COLLECTOR

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A SÈVRES GREEN-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'COUVERT', 1^ER GRANDEUR ET SOUCOUPE 'LITRON', 2^EME GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H FOR 1760 AND PAINTER'S MARK OF A CRESCENT FOR ARMAND BENEATH THE GREEN GROUND, ILLEGIBLE INCISED MARKS

Painted with panels of exotic birds in landscapes within a surround of gilt peacock feathers, with gilt dentil rims, flaw to underside of saucer, gilt rims worn
2¾in. (7cm.) high, the cup; 5¼in. (13.3cm.) diam., the saucer (2)

來源

The Honourable and Mrs. John Ashley, England, 1873
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 29 October 1973, lot 28
Anon sale, Sotheby's New York, 15-16 October 1980, lot 354
With Dalva Brothers, Inc., New York

出版

Burlington, 1873, p. 13
Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, p. 548, p. 553 - footnote 33

拍品專文

The painter's mark of a crescent has recently been attributed to Louis-Denis Armand, ainé, active at Vincennes and Sèvres 1745-1779 and known for his amusing and exquisitely executed birds

A cup and saucer from this same service is in the Wallace Collection, no. 368.