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Lot Essay
According to David Peters, the mark of an ermine found on the present cup and saucer is most probably that of Jean-Jacques Sioux, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a flower painter 1752-1760.
See Wentworth, Christie's London, 8 July 1998, Lot 78, for a Sèvres apple-green ground gobelet à lait couvert of similar size, similarly dated and similarly finely painted with flowers. That example, accompanied by an elaborately pierced quatrefoil corbeille carée instead of the usual saucer, bore the painter's mark for Louis-Jean Thévenet, père aîné recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres 1741 and 1745-1777.
See Wentworth, Christie's London, 8 July 1998, Lot 78, for a Sèvres apple-green ground gobelet à lait couvert of similar size, similarly dated and similarly finely painted with flowers. That example, accompanied by an elaborately pierced quatrefoil corbeille carée instead of the usual saucer, bore the painter's mark for Louis-Jean Thévenet, père aîné recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres 1741 and 1745-1777.