TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN TAILLANDIER CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES, 4EME GRANDEUR)

BOTH WITH BLUE OR PUCE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, THE FIRST WITH DATE LETTER X FOR 1775, PAINTER'S ANCHOR FOR BUTEUX L'AINE; THE SECOND CIRCA 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR TAILLANDIER

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN TAILLANDIER CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES, 4^E^M^E GRANDEUR)
BOTH WITH BLUE OR PUCE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, THE FIRST WITH DATE LETTER X FOR 1775, PAINTER'S ANCHOR FOR BUTEUX L'AINE; THE SECOND CIRCA 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR TAILLANDIER
The first with a yellow pointillé ground painted with a butter churn before a cottage in landscape, the saucer with musical and gardening trophies; the second with a pale-green pointillé ground painted with budding and blooming pink roses reserved within gilt wreaths; both with gilt dentil rims
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) diameter, the pale-green saucer (4)

Provenance

Simon Goldblatt; Sotheby & Co., London, 1 May 1967, lot 143 (the first).
Oscar Dusendschon, Geneva; Sotheby & Co., London, 6 December 1960, lot 52 (the second).
With The Antique Porcelain Company, Ltd., London (the second).
The Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Houghton, by whom given to Sir J.H. Plumb (the second).
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge, nos. 20 and 38.

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Lot Essay

Charles Buteux, l'aîné recorded at Sèvres as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers, 1756-1782.
Vincent Taillandier, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers and ground patterns, 1753-90.

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