THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING VARIOUS DATE LETTERS, VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S, AND INCISED MARKS

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A GROUP OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE TABLEWARES
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING VARIOUS DATE LETTERS, VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S, AND INCISED MARKS
Painted with loose bouquets, trophies or birds in flight, each reserved within gilt rocaille cartouches, comprising:
A small tray (plateau 'à raves'),
Two small sugar-bowls and two covers, (pot à sucre 'Hébert' 3ème grandeur) one cover matched,
Two juice cups and two covers (pots à jus 'du Roi' et deux couvercles), the decoration possibly later in date,
Together with: a Sèvres bleu céleste saucer for a tasse mignonette
4 in. (17.8 cm.) wide, the plateau (10)

Provenance

Baroness Renée de Becker, New York (the sugar-bowls).

Literature

C.C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, vol. IV, no. 94a-b, p. 228. (the juice cups).
Ibid., no. 100a-b, pg. 243 (the sugar-bowls).
Ibid., no. 101, pg. 244 (the saucer).

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Lot Essay

Dominique Joffroy is recorded as a painter of flowers and figures at the factory from 1753 to 1770.

Charles Buteux l'aîné is recorded as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers at the factory from 1756 to 1782.

Vincent Taillandier is recorded as a painter of flowers and ground patterns at the factory from 1753 to 1790.

André-Vincent Vielliard père is recorded as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers at the factory from 1752 to 1790.

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