THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 549-550)

TWO SEVRES CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET LEURS SOUCOUPES, 3EME GRANDEUR)

THE FIRST CIRCA 1787, INTERLACED L'S MARK, DATE LETTER JJ FOR 1786, GILDER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX FILS ANNI AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR TAILLANDIER TO BOTH, THE CUP INCISED 47 AND 43, THE SAUCER INCISED 48; THE SECOND WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS LL FOR 1789, PAINTER'S MARK FOR FONTAINE

细节

TWO SEVRES CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET LEURS SOUCOUPES, 3EME GRANDEUR)
The first circa 1787, interlaced L's mark, date letter JJ for 1786, gilder's mark for Buteux fils anni and painter's mark for Taillandier to both, the cup incised 47 and 43, the saucer incised 48; the second with blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters LL for 1789, painter's mark for Fontaine
The first painted with scattered sprigs of forget-me-nots on the dark yellow ground, a band of forget-me-nots and red ribbon scroll beneath the gilt dentil rim; the second painted on a pale blue ground with a puce arabesque suspending an urn enriched in gilt, a band of trailing convolvulus beneath the gilt line rim
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) diameter, the saucers (4)

来源

Mary Porter Walsh; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 167 (the yellow cup and saucer)
with Dalva Brothers, New York, 1995 (the blue cup and saucer)
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 169, part (the blue cup and saucer)

拍品专文

A sugar-bowl and cover similarly marked and decorated like the present yellow cup and saucer is in the collection of the Wadsworth Athenuem, a gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917.1118). A matching teapot and cover is in the collection of The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramics Arts, Toronto (G.83.1.1078). It is likely that these pieces were all originally part of the same service.

Geneviève Taillandier, active at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers, ground patterns and patterns, 1774-1798.

Charles-Nicolas Buteux, active at Sèvres as a painter of flowers and patterns and as a gilder, 1763-1801.