Sèvres Porcelain
A Soft-Paste Sèvres Porcelain Cup and Saucer, 1775
H8.7 Dia.15cm
H.3 3/8 Dia.5 7/8in
H.3 3/8 Dia.5 7/8in
11455
GBP £ 5,200.00
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Each piece with the blue factory mark of interlaced L’s enclosing the date letter x for 1775; painter’s mark for Jean-Louis Thévenet.
This is a gobelet Litron et soucoupe of the first size with a quite elaborately-moulded handle. The border decoration with gilded lines centred by pale blue ovals seems based on contemporary ribbons. Between them the spaces formed by v-shaped sweeping lines is charmingly painted with fruit and flowers below sprays of green leaves. A very unusual and fine piece no doubt made as a collector's piece rather than as part of a larger tea service.