Sèvres Porcelain
A Soft-Paste Sèvres Porcelain Pale Blue Ground Cup & Saucer, 1787
H.7.9 Dia.13.4 cm
H. 3 1/8 Dia.5 1/4 in
H. 3 1/8 Dia.5 1/4 in
11508
GBP £ 6,200.00
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Literature
According to the factory artists’ ledgers, the painter Noualhier decorated a number of cups and saucers and tea services with 'petit bleu' and 'azure' ground, including some with 'paysage animaux' which are descriptions which could cover this piece.
A cup and saucer of this shape from the 1780s is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco which has a similar solid ground colour with decoration also painted over that ground.