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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER AND STAND (GOBELET A LAIT, SON COUVERCLE ET SA SOUCOUPE A SIX PANS, 2... GRANDEUR)

DARK BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C FOR 1755-1756 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR EVANS TO BOTH, THE CUP INCISED 4

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER AND STAND (GOBELET A LAIT, SON COUVERCLE ET SA SOUCOUPE A SIX PANS, 2^.^.^. GRANDEUR)
Dark blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter C for 1755-1756 and painter's mark for Evans to both, the cup incised 4
Painted in colors with birds in flight reserved within gilt ciselé wreaths of trailing flowers on the mottled dark blue ground, gilt dentil rims
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) diameter, the stand (3)

Provenance

The Collection of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire; Sotheby's on the Premises, 24 May 1977, lot 2013

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PROVENANCE:
The Collection of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire; Sotheby's on the Premises, 24 May 1977, lot 2013

Lot Essay

For a discussion of the model and illustrations of several examples with variations in the shape of the handle, all with the more commonly found stand with steeply angled straight side, see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 667-674, nos. C438-C440.

Etienne Evans is recorded at Sèvres as a painter specializing in birds 1752-1786.

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