INTERLACED L'S MARK AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR BULIDON TO THE SERVING PIECES, THE TEAPOT, SUGAR-BOWL AND TRAY IN BLACK AND WITH DATE LETTER X FOR 1775, THE CREAM-JUG WITH DATE LETTERS EE FOR 1782, THE CUP AND SAUCER UNMARKED

Details

A SEVRES PART TEA SERVICE (DEJEUNER 'A BAGUETTES')
Interlaced L's mark and painter's mark for Bulidon to the serving pieces, the teapot, sugar-bowl and tray in black and with date letter X for 1775, the cream-jug with date letters ee for 1782, the cup and saucer unmarked
Painted with flower garlands looped to form wreaths, alternate loops suspending wreaths of pink roses, comprising: :
A lobed oval tray, the rim edged and looped with a gilt white 'sausage' along the perimeter of the tray and entwined with a striped ribbon tied in a bow at each loop handle (plateau 'ga baguettes'), 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) long overall
An oviform teapot and cover with gilt berry finial (théière '4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
A footed cream-jug (pot à lait 'à trois pieds', 2eme grandeur), 3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high
A sugar-bowl and cover with gilt berry finial (pot à sucre 'Bouret, 2eme grandeur), 3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high
A cup and saucer (gobelet 'Litron', 3eme grandeur) (8)

Provenance

with Albert Amor, 32 St James Street, London, 1905-circa 1935.

Lot Essay

Nicolas Bulidon is recorded at Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns from 1763-1792. The trophy in the center of the is more likely the work of Charles Buteux, L'aîné, active 1756-1782.
For another cabaret of similar form and composition, dated 1776 and painted with garlands of flowers and richly gilt, see Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, pp. 216-216, cat. no. 104.

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