TWO SEVRES PALE-GREEN GROUND TAILLANDIER CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q FOR 1769, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR FONTAINE

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TWO SEVRES PALE-GREEN GROUND TAILLANDIER CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3^E^M^E GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q FOR 1769, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR FONTAINE
Each painted en grisaille with classical portraits and trophies within gilt cartouches and gilt vine suspended from ribbons, reserved against either puce or pale-blue pointillé on a pale-lime green or sea-foam green ground
4¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter, the saucers (4)

Provenance

Oscar Dusendschon Collection, Geneva, Sotheby & Co. London, 6 December 1960, lot 54 (the second).
With The Antique Porcelain Company, Ltd., London (the second).
The Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Houghton, by whom given to Sir J.H. Plumb, 1961 (the second).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 March 1976, lot 89 (the first).
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge (both).

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Lot Essay

Jacques Fontaine, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers, figures, patterns and cameos and as a gilder, 1752-1800.

See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, vol. II, London, 1988, pp. 506-7, fig. c347 for a very similar cup and saucer also painted by Fontaine with grisaille portraits and trophies on a pointillé ground.

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