Lot Essay
Louis-Jean Thévenet père is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres 1741-1777 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns
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BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L FOR 1764, PAINTER'S MARK FOR THÉVENET PÈRE, THE SAUCER INCISED 2
Details
A SEVRES TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER AND STAND (POT A TOILETTE, SON COUVERCLE ET SA SOUCOUPE)
Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter L for 1764, painter's mark for Thévenet père, the saucer incised 2
The hemispheric bowl with scroll ring handles, the domed cover with a pink ranunculus finial, each piece painted with a rinceau of entwined gilt palms and berried laurel alternately centering a four-petal puce flower, and a gilt paterae on a blue ground, the gilt dentil rim with a further shaped and gilt-seeded burnt orange band
3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high, the cup; 5in. (12.7cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter L for 1764, painter's mark for Thévenet père, the saucer incised 2
The hemispheric bowl with scroll ring handles, the domed cover with a pink ranunculus finial, each piece painted with a rinceau of entwined gilt palms and berried laurel alternately centering a four-petal puce flower, and a gilt paterae on a blue ground, the gilt dentil rim with a further shaped and gilt-seeded burnt orange band
3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high, the cup; 5in. (12.7cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
Provenance
With Nicolier, Paris
Anon. sale; Jacques Tajan, lot 227
Anon. sale; Etude Tajan, Paris, 28 March 1995, lot 81
Anon. sale; Jacques Tajan, lot 227
Anon. sale; Etude Tajan, Paris, 28 March 1995, lot 81