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A SÈVRES (HARD PASTE) PINK AND GOLD-GROUND CABINET CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

GILT INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER JJ FOR 1786 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR LE BEL TO THE SAUCER, THE CUP INCISED //

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A SÈVRES (HARD PASTE) PINK AND GOLD-GROUND CABINET CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
GILT INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER JJ FOR 1786 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR LE BEL TO THE SAUCER, THE CUP INCISED //
Painted en grisaille with classical figures or heads on mint-green medallions reserved within puce bands issuing reserved and enameled shaded pink folliate scrolls and leafy green branches on the wide burnished gold border edged with mint-green bands and flanked by pink bands painted in purple with a rinceaux of foliate scrolls centering cornucopiae, the rims with a narrow band of pink 'lollipop' flowers, the interior of the cup gilt, gilt line rims
2 5/8 in. (6.8 cm.) high, the cup; 5½ in. (14 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

Sale room notice

Please note this piece has a date letter for 1786, not 1787 as stated in the printed catalogue.

Lot Essay

For another similarly marked and decorated cup and saucer in the Royal Collection, possibly from a small cabaret to which the present example also belonged, see Sèvres Porcelain from the Royal Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 1979-1980, p. 125, no. 132 (erroneously described as soft paste).

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