BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753/1754 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR MORIN TO BOTH, THE SAUCER INCISED 1

Although perhaps best known for his scenes of quayside activity and military life, Jean-Louis Morin started his thirty-three year career as a painter at Vincennes and later at Sèvres in 1754 by painting putti after Boucher. The present cup and saucer must, therefore, rank among the first of his finished pieces. It is interesting to compare his control of color and the subtlety of his shading with his painting on the similarly decorated sugar-bowl and cover offered as the following lot, painted just three years later.