A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) GOLD-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 1ERE GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1780, CROWNED IRON-RED INTERLACED L'S MARK, PAINTER'S MARK MOST LIKELY FOR SCHRADER, THE CUP INCISED JK AND CS1

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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) GOLD-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 1ERE GRANDEUR)
Circa 1780, crowned iron-red interlaced L's mark, painter's mark most likely for Schrader, the cup incised JK and CS1
The cup painted in colors with a military trophy reserved within a strapwork cartouche issuing green foliate scrolls on the gold ground further enameled with pink and iron-red flowers between pink ribbon-tied forget-me-knot wreaths, the saucer decorated en suite but with no trophy
3in. (7.6cm.) high, the cup; 6¼in. (15.8cm.) diam., the saucer (2)

Provenance

Collection A. Chevet
Collection Le Tallec; Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 8-9 November 1990, lot 827

Lot Essay

Nicolas Schradre, recorded at Sèvres as a painter of landscapes, figures, birds and patterns and as a gilder, is the likely decorator of the present cup and saucer. His work is found on a garniture of three vases Chinois in the collection of HRH Queen Elizabeth. See Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain from the Royal Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, The Queen's Gallery, London, 1979, no. 40.

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