A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'HERBERT' ET SOUCOUPE)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER F FOR 1758, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX L'AINÉ, BOTH INCISED H

Details

A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'HERBERT' ET SOUCOUPE)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter F for 1758, painter's mark for Buteux l'ainé, both incised H
Each painted with a trophy of love amidst fruit and flowers reserved on the mottled green-ground within a gilt ciselè cartouche of grasses and flowers, gilt dentil rims
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, the cup; 4¾in. (12cm.) diam., the saucer

Provenance

With Armin B. Allen,Inc., New York, May 1986

Lot Essay

Charles Buteux, l'ainé, recorded at Sèvres 1756-1782 as a painter specializing in figures, trophies and flowers

See Vincennes and Sèvres from a New England Private Collection, Christie's, New York, 5 May 1999, lot 47 for a green-ground déjeuner dated 1761 and also painted with trophies by Buteux

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