1764, INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR CATRICE, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK TO FOOTRIM OF CUP

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A SEVRES TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER AND STAND (GOBELET 'A LAIT' ET SOUCOUPE)
1764, INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR CATRICE, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK TO FOOTRIM OF CUP
Of tapering form with gilt flower finial, painted with swags of leaves and flowers suspended from coloured bows, gilt dentil rims (some minute glaze chips to footrim of cup, patches of wear to gilt rims and stand)
The saucer 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of this form see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (London, 1988) Vol. II, pp. 667-669. The present example is of the second size.

Nicolas Catrice was a painter of flowers active 1757-74.

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