A SEVRES PORCELAIN FAUX LACQUER BROWN-GROUND CUP AND REPLACEMENT SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET UNE SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
A SEVRES PORCELAIN FAUX LACQUER BROWN-GROUND CUP AND REPLACEMENT SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET UNE SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)

THE CUP CIRCA 1780, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER CC, PAINTER'S MARK FOR L.-A. LE GRAND; THE SAUCER CIRCA 1813-15, IRON-RED CROWNED IMPERIAL EAGLE MARK, BOTH INDISTINCTLY INCISED

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN FAUX LACQUER BROWN-GROUND CUP AND REPLACEMENT SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET UNE SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
THE CUP CIRCA 1780, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER CC, PAINTER'S MARK FOR L.-A. LE GRAND; THE SAUCER CIRCA 1813-15, IRON-RED CROWNED IMPERIAL EAGLE MARK, BOTH INDISTINCTLY INCISED
Each decorated in gilt with Chinoiserie vignettes of figures in gardens, the cup enriched in silver, the saucer in platinum
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, the cup; 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) diameter, the saucer
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 October 1987, lot 180.

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Lot Essay

Louis-Antoine Le Grand fils is recorded at the manufactory from 1776-1817 as a gilder and painter of chinoiseries, figures, birds, flowers and patterns. It is interesting to note the use of platinum to enrich the saucer made thirty years later to match a cup on which silver was used - the silver tarnishes.

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