Lot Essay
Antoine Capelle is recorded at Vincennes and at Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers, friezes, ground colors and feathering and as a gilder 1745-1787, 1790.
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BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS II FOR 1786, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CAPELLE
Details
A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters ii for 1786, painter's mark for Capelle
Painted in the style of Salembier with a wide yellow band painted in iron-red foliate with scrolls and shells flanked by fuRther concentric striated puce bands edged in gilt and in turn centering a further band of beau bleu foliate scrolls, gilt line rims (2)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters ii for 1786, painter's mark for Capelle
Painted in the style of Salembier with a wide yellow band painted in iron-red foliate with scrolls and shells flanked by fuRther concentric striated puce bands edged in gilt and in turn centering a further band of beau bleu foliate scrolls, gilt line rims (2)
Provenance
With Armin B. Allen, London