Lot Essay
Guillaume Nöel is recorded at Sèvres 1755-1800 as a painter specializing in flowers and in patterned decoration such as frises riches and frises colorées.
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BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS LL FOR 1788, PAINTER'S MARK FOR NÖEL, THE CUP INCISED 43, THE SAUCER INCISED 48
Details
A SEVRES BLUE-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letters LL for 1788, painter's mark for Nöel, the cup incised 43, the saucer incised 48
Painted with wreaths of pink roses alternating with covered urns enclosed within pink and blue foliate scrolls and branches of berried laurel to for a rinceau, the blue border gilt with opposing S-scrolls centering arrows alternately pointed in opposite directions
2¾in. (7cm.) high, the cup; 5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letters LL for 1788, painter's mark for Nöel, the cup incised 43, the saucer incised 48
Painted with wreaths of pink roses alternating with covered urns enclosed within pink and blue foliate scrolls and branches of berried laurel to for a rinceau, the blue border gilt with opposing S-scrolls centering arrows alternately pointed in opposite directions
2¾in. (7cm.) high, the cup; 5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
Provenance
Anon. sale; Ader Tajan, Paris, 18 November 1992, lot 31