Lot 188

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A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

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A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1787, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C.-N. DODIN AND GILDER'S MARK FOR M.-B. CHAUVAUX L'AINE, INCISED 3 1 N TO CUP AND 41 TO SAUCER

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A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1787, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C.-N. DODIN AND GILDER'S MARK FOR M.-B. CHAUVAUX L'AINE, INCISED 3 1 N TO CUP AND 41 TO SAUCER
The cup painted after J.-S. Berthélemy with a bacchante picking grapes in a landscape within a chased gilt oval medallion, the saucer with an autumnal landscape with a thyrsus and upturned basket of grapes in the foreground, the borders with a wide band of gilt stylized flowers alternate with scrolls enclosing trellis, gilt dentil rims
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diameter, the saucer

Provenance

Ralph Bernal Collection; Christie's, London, 5-9 March 1855, lot 338 (sold to S.H. Sutherland).
Collection M. Goury de Roslan, Galerie Georges Petit, Me P. Chevallier, Paris, 28-31 May 1905, lot 96 (sold to Stettiner).
Galerie Henri Stettiner, Paris.
Anonymous sale; hôtel Drouot, Paris, salle 1, Me M. Quoniam, 5 February 1943, lot 29.
Le Tallec Collection; Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 8-9 November 1990, lot 833.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 May 1998, lot 5.

Literature

G. Seret's, 'Une Paire de Vses du Musée de l'Île-de-France (Collection Ephrussi de Rothschild à Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat)', A. Faÿ-Hallé, et. al., Les Vases de Sèvres XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, Dijon, 2014, pp. 73 and 119.

Exhibited

Paris, Palais du Louvre, pavillon de Marsan, Cent cinquantenaire de la porcelaine de Limoges- La porcelaine française de 1673 à 1914 - La porcelaine contemporaine de Limoges, 1929, cat. no. 785.

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Lot Essay

After a painting by Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1743-1811) now in the collection of the Musée Municipal de Laon, the city of Berthélemy's birth.
Charles-Nicolas Dodin, one of the premier painters at Sèvres, specialized in figures and trophies at the manufactory from 1754-1803. Michel -Barnabé Chavaux l’aîné is recorded as a gilder at the manufactory from 1752-88.

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