THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOT 583)

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'HEBERT,' 2EME GRANDEUR, ET SA SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759-60, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIEILLARD PÈRE, INCISED OO AND NU TO THE CUP, I TO THE SAUCER

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'HEBERT,' 2^E^M^E GRANDEUR, ET SA SOUCOUPE, 3^E^M^E GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759-60, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIEILLARD PÈRE, INCISED OO AND NU TO THE CUP, I TO THE SAUCER
Painted in the manner of Boucher with a little boy and a little girl, each in a landscape vignette within a gilt ciselé cartouche of grasses and flowers, gilt dentil rims
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

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With John Whitehead, London.
David Peters, Little Birkhamstead, England.
The Mingeldorff-Mitchell Collection.

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Though the present cup and saucer are of different sizes (3eme and 2eme grandeur), they were certainly made together-- the decoration and marks are the same. Vieillard or the ground colorist likely picked the wrong size saucer up from the shelf before decorating them.

André Vincent Vieillard pêre, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-90.