VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A SÈVRES LATER DECORATED PINK-GROUND TWO-HANDLED CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'CORNET' ET SA SOUCOUPE)

THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS FACTORY DATE LETTER AND PAINTER'S MARKS, INCISED 41 TO THE CUP AND 24 TO THE STAND

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A SÈVRES LATER DECORATED PINK-GROUND TWO-HANDLED CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'CORNET' ET SA SOUCOUPE)
The porcelain 18th century, the decoration 19th century, spurious factory date letter and painter's marks, incised 41 to the cup and 24 to the stand
The cup of beaker form with burnished gilt loop handles at the sides, the stand with a central emplacement, each painted with continuous military scene between pink bands, that at the rim gilt with scrolling grapevine and seeding, the lower portion of the cup with a similar rinceau centering a ciselé mask, gilt dentil rims
4 3/8 in. (11.3 cm.) high, the cup; 8 in. (20.2 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

拍品专文

The form of a Tasse Cornet was developed 1787-1788 for Marie Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet. As the date letter on the present lot is for 1782, that these marks are spurious cannot be debated. See Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, p. 242, cat. no. 197 for a teacup and saucer with spurious Buen Retiro fleur-de-lys mark, the decoration described as probably a 19th century addition and very similar to that on the present lot.