A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) CAFE-AU-LAIT GROUND CHINOISERIE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)

CROWNED BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS AA FOR 1778, PAINTER'S MARK FOR L'ECOT AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE KILN MARK OF 309.1(TRIANGLE) TO BOTH

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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) CAFE-AU-LAIT GROUND CHINOISERIE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
Crowned blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters AA for 1778, painter's mark for L'Ecot and underglaze blue kiln mark of 309.1(triangle) to both
Each painted and gilt with a continuous band of figures in stylized settings between gilt-edged bands of foliate scrolls (2)

拍品專文

Louis-François L'Ecot, recorded at Sèvres as a painter of chinoiseries, arabesques, and butterflies and as a gilder, 1761-1764, 1772-1800.

For a tea kettle in the collection of the Musée nationale de la céramique at Sèvres, painted by Dieu with chinoiseries on the same cafe-au-lait ground as the present cup and saucer, see Tamara Préaud and Marcelle Brunet, Sèvres, des origines à nos jours, Paris, 1978, p. 108, plate XLIX.

For other hard paste porcelain painted with chinoiseries by L'Ecot, see Christie's New York, 17/18 November 1999, lots 267 and 21 May 2003, lots 147 and 148, also the same Novenber sale, lot 230 for a maroon ground example painted by Jean-Jacques Dieu.

See Tamara Préaud,"Sèvres, la Chine et les "chinoiseries" au XVIIIe siècle", Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, no. 47, 1989, pp. 39-50 for a detailed discussion of chinoiserie decoration at Sèvres and a listing of known déjeuners with such decoration. See also Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 624-628.