PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

A SEVRES TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER AND STAND (POT A TOILETTE, SON COUVERCLE ET SA SOUCOUPE)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER HH FOR 1785, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLARD, GILT BY BAUDOIN.

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A SEVRES TWO-HANDLED CUP, COVER AND STAND (POT A TOILETTE, SON COUVERCLE ET SA SOUCOUPE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER hh for 1785, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLARD, GILT BY BAUDOIN.
The hemispheric bowl with scroll ring handles, the domed cover with a gilt berry finial, painted with alternate panels of landscapes and of a mottled blue ground gilt with wreaths centering two tiers of shaped rectangles, each reserved within gilt bands and linked with a carmine line, concentric bands of lace-like gilt and blue bands below, gilt dentil rims
4¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

拍品專文

The present cup, cover and stand, one from a set of six described as decorated with paysage et font [landscapes and ground color], is recorded as having entered the kiln for firing 23 October 1785, the painting given to Viellard, the gilding to Baudouin.

André-Vincent Viellard père is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter specializing in figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers 1752-1790; his colleague François Baudouin père as a gilder 1750-1800.