CIRCA 1775-80, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, SAUCER WITH INDISTINCT IMPRESSED MARK

Details

A Berlin small cup and saucer
Circa 1775-80, underglaze blue sceptre marks, saucer with indistinct impressed mark
Of Sèvres form with double entwined loop handle, painted in eisenrot with putto among clouds with garlands of vine, a dove and a crown of laurels within gilt floral cartouches against a gilt and blue scale ornament ground, gilt band and dentil rims

Literature

Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, p. 512, fig. 406.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This appears to have formed a part of the déjeuner in Weimar illustrated in Erich Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan (Braunschweig, 1966), Vol. II, pl. 137a. The putti on the saucer (see the detail above left) are derived from Pierre Aveline's engraving (left) from a series of six prints after François Boucher published by Huquier. This print is also illustrated by Pierrette Jean-Richard, op. cit. (Paris, 1978), p. 87, no. 240.

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