A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN TAZZE

BOTH PORCELAIN BOWLS WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER U FOR 1773, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS LATE 19TH 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN TAZZE
BOTH PORCELAIN BOWLS WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER U FOR 1773, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS LATE 19TH 20TH CENTURY
Each dished bowl painted with floral reserves within an ormolu banded rim and foot, with berried laurel-cast handles to each side, on monopodia legs terminating in hairy paw feet, on an incurving square ribbed base, the porcelain bowls repaired
8¾ in. (22 cm.) high, 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diameter (2)

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One with painter's mark of four dots (....) for Pierre-Théodore Buteux, active as a painter and gilder 1765-1784. The other with marks for: Z = Joyau, active as a painter specializing in flowers, lines & feathered edges 1766 - 1776; script E = Claude Couturier, active as a flower painter 1762-1775, 1783; V = unidentified painter of edges or a gilder circa 1773-1774

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