THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 539-542)

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLUE NOUVEAU TAILLANDIER CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER R FOR 1770, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MORIN

Details

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLUE NOUVEAU TAILLANDIER CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SA SOUCOUPE, 2^E^M^E GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter r for 1770, painter's mark for Morin
Painted with typical quayside scenes, the border with concentric bands of gilt oeil-de-perdrix and of trailing laurel within gilt ciselé bands, gilt line rims
5½ in. (13.9 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

Provenance

Museum Silver Shop Inc., New York City, 22 July 1959 ($250)
Property from the Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1989, lot 296
With E. & H. Manners, London
Property from the Collection formed by Robert R. and Pauline S. Heitner; Christie's, New York, 22-23 October 2003, lot 284.

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Lot Essay

Jean-Louis Morin is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres 1754-1787. A versatile painter, his mark is recorded on pieces decorated with figures, birds and flowers. However, it is for his military and quayside scenes such as those found on the present cup and saucer that he is particularly renowned.

A vase painted with the same beach scene as on the present saucer is in the collection of Waddesdon Manor. See Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, p. 199, no. 72.

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