Lot Essay
François-Joseph Aloncle painted birds, animals and landscapes at Sèvres from 1758 to 1781. A cup and saucer of this pattern is in the Musée de Sèvres.
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1761, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I, PAINTER'S SCRIPT N MARKS FOR ALONCLE, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS
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A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND PART TEA-SERVICE
1761, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I, PAINTER'S SCRIPT N MARKS FOR ALONCLE, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS
Each piece painted with exotic birds in trees and among shrubs within shaped oval and circular gilt ciselé cartouches with gilt zig-zag and scroll ornament, within gilt dentil rims, comprising:
An oviform teapot and cover (cover with minute chipping to finial and very slight crack to interior flange)
A circular sugar-bowl and cover (finial broken off and restuck, damage and restoration to foliage of finial, slight flaking to gilt rim of bowl)
A baluster cream-jug (pot à lait a trois pieds)
Four teacups and four saucers (cups with slight wear to dentil rims)
1761, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I, PAINTER'S SCRIPT N MARKS FOR ALONCLE, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS
Each piece painted with exotic birds in trees and among shrubs within shaped oval and circular gilt ciselé cartouches with gilt zig-zag and scroll ornament, within gilt dentil rims, comprising:
An oviform teapot and cover (cover with minute chipping to finial and very slight crack to interior flange)
A circular sugar-bowl and cover (finial broken off and restuck, damage and restoration to foliage of finial, slight flaking to gilt rim of bowl)
A baluster cream-jug (pot à lait a trois pieds)
Four teacups and four saucers (cups with slight wear to dentil rims)
Provenance
Formerly in a Ducal Collection, Coburg, sale Christie's, 9th July 2001, lot 179.
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