Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 214
A Sèvres bleu-célèste-ground cup and saucer, circa 1760
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,625 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Sèvres bleu-célèste-ground cup and saucer, circa 1760
Gobelet 'feuille de choux' et soucoupe, the blue ground reserved and moulded with three panels depicting vignettes of birds in landscapes edged with gilt dash borders, the saucer with a similar panel in the centre surrounded by gilt floral and foliate scrollwork, the cup: 7.8cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter G in blue and painter's mark for Etienne Evans to saucer, incised marks to both (2)
Footnotes
A green-ground cup and saucer of the same shape and with similar decoration by Evans was sold as part of the John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sèvres, Christie's London, 25 November 2014, lot 12.
Another with similar decoration by Evans and a pink ground is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Other examples of the shape with different decoration are in the Wallace Collection, London, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
