PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 736 - 779)

TWO VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'A LA REINE' ET GOBELET 'HEBERT' 2EME GRANDEUR ET SES SOUCOUPES)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK TO EACH, PAINTER'S MARK OF THREE DOTS TO THE FIRST CUP, INCISED 2 TO THE CUP AND CP TO THE SAUCER; DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-1754 TO THE SECOND, INCISED 3 TO THE CUP AND CP TO THE SAUCER

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TWO VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'A LA REINE' ET GOBELET 'HEBERT' 2EME GRANDEUR ET SES SOUCOUPES)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK TO EACH, PAINTER'S MARK OF THREE DOTS TO THE FIRST CUP, INCISED 2 TO THE CUP AND cp TO THE SAUCER; DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-1754 TO THE SECOND, INCISED 3 TO THE CUP AND cp TO THE SAUCER
Both painted with birds in flight reserved on the dark blue ground within gilt cartouches, gilt dentil rims; those on the first in colors, the cartouches of trellis entwined with vines; those on the second also gilt, the cartouches of grasses issuing flowers
5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) and 5½ in. (14 cm.) diameter, the saucers (4)

Lot Essay

For a similar gobelet 'à la reine', its cartouche similar to that on the present gobelet 'Hébert', see Tamara Préaud, ed., Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, p. 109, no. 293.

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