TWO SÈVRES FOOTED ICE CUPS FROM THE CHARLOTTE LOUISE SERVICE (TASSES À GLACE)

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TWO SÈVRES FOOTED ICE CUPS FROM THE CHARLOTTE LOUISE SERVICE (TASSES À GLACE)
CIRCA 1773, WITH FAINT PAINTER'S MARKS, ONE INCISED PET, THE OTHER CP

Each of campana form with scroll loop handle, divided horizontally with a gilt line, the upper part painted in colours with an oval panel of a putto on a cloud within a gilt band and flanked by berried wreaths suspended from the blue rim gilt with a foliate vine and oulined with a gilt scroll, the lower part with a crowned monogram 'CL' formed of pink roses and blue cornflowers, discolouration to one gilt footrim
2¾in. (7cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The present ice cups are from a service presented by Louise XV to his sister-in-law Maria Carolina of Naples, Queen of Naples known in France as Charlotte Louise. Records show that it was delivered by the factory on December 4th, 1773. Cf. Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 155