Live Auction 2350500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
A SEVRES PORCELAIN PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND FOOTED CREAM-JUG, CUP AND SAUCER (POT A LAIT 'A TROIS PIEDS', GOBELET 'CALABRE' ET SON SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
Lot 616 PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION (LOTS 616-617)

A SEVRES PORCELAIN PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND FOOTED CREAM-JUG, CUP AND SAUCER (POT A LAIT 'A TROIS PIEDS', GOBELET 'CALABRE' ET SON SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1765, THE SAUCER WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M FOR 1765, INCISED MONOGRAM MARK TO FOOT OF CREAM-JUG, INDISTINCT INCISED MARKS TO THE CUP AND SAUCER, POSSIBLY JLC TO ONE AND B TO THE OTHER, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHAPPUIS TO THE SAUCER

Closed22 October 2010

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND FOOTED CREAM-JUG, CUP AND SAUCER (POT A LAIT 'A TROIS PIEDS', GOBELET 'CALABRE' ET SON SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1765, THE SAUCER WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M FOR 1765, INCISED MONOGRAM MARK TO FOOT OF CREAM-JUG, INDISTINCT INCISED MARKS TO THE CUP AND SAUCER, POSSIBLY JLC TO ONE AND B TO THE OTHER, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHAPPUIS TO THE SAUCER
Each of the three pieces painted with a bird perched on the branch of a stunted tree within a landscape, reserved against a ground of blue and peacock-blue shaded shell-form lappets surmounted by gilt striations, the cream-jug with branch handle and feet, gilt dentil rims
3 7/8 in. (9.7 cm.) high, the cream-jug; 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) diameter, the saucer (3)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1989, lot 286.

Specialist note

This extraordinary decoration appears on a teapot 'Calabre' of 1765 in a private English collection; on an undated cup and saucer in a private Seattle collection, and on a cup and saucer dated 1765 in the Wallace Collection. It is likely that all of these pieces plus those in the present lot were originally part of the same small service. Also similarly decorated are a broc 'Roussel' and basin of 1766 sold in Paris in 1960. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, vol. II, London, 1988, pp. 537-8.

Antoine-Joseph Chappuis is recorded at Sèvres as a painter of birds and flowers, 1761-87.