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A Berlin teacup and saucer
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A Berlin teacup and saucer

CIRCA 1780, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, INCISED 31 (?) TO BOTH

Details
A Berlin teacup and saucer
Circa 1780, underglaze blue sceptre marks, incised 31 (?) to both
The cup with foliage-moulded loop handle, with an oval pink ground medallion edged with a ribbon-tied floral garland and painted en grisaille with Cupid seated among clouds with a dove, flanked by two flower-sprays below a border of stylised interlocking gilt foliage, the saucer similarly decorated with Cupid among clouds carrying the torch of love, gilt line rims (some very slight wear to gilding, cup with crack from rim, saucer with two flakes to enamels)
Literature
Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich 1987), Vol. II, no. 407.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The putto on the cup, emblematic of Air, is derived from Jean Daullé's engraving L'Air after François Boucher and from a series of prints published in 1748 which included the Four Elements. The putto on the saucer is taken from Pierre Aveline's engraving Deux Amours, l'un porte un flambeau, l'autre un arc from a set of six prints after Boucher. For the first, see Pierrette Jean-Richard, 'L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild' Musée du Louvre, Inventaire général des gravures, École française (Paris 1978), p.160, no. 533, and for the second, p. 87, no. 236.

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