1777, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Z, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHABRY, GILDER'S MARK FOR BOULANGER, CAN INCISED M C, SAUCER INCISED WITH A CROSS POTENT

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A SÈVRES BLUE GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE)
1777, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Z, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHABRY, GILDER'S MARK FOR BOULANGER, CAN INCISED M C, SAUCER INCISED WITH A CROSS POTENT
The can painted with two Turkish lovers in an exotic landscape, the boy with his arm resting on the girl's shoulder, within an oval gilt ciselé ribbon-tied band cartouche, the ground with a gilt border of garlands interwoven about clasps and flowerheads, the saucer with a recumbent dog before a basket of coloured feather plumes and a ribbon-tied shepherdess's staff in a wooded landscape, within a circular gilt band cartouche against a blue ground and similar border, gilt dentil rims (minute areas of wear to gilding, gilt footrim of can possibly partially refreshed, cartouche of saucer partially refreshed)

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Étienne-Jean Chabry (fils or fils aîné or l'aîné) was a painter of figures, flowers and patterns at Sèvres from 1764 to 1787. Jean-Pierre Boulanger was a gilder and painter of patterns at Sèvres from 1754 to 1785.

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