Live Auction 2350500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDUER)
Lot 625

A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDUER)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX L'AINE, INCISED S TO BOTH

Closed22 October 2010

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDUER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX L'AINE, INCISED S TO BOTH
Painted with musical trophies within chased gilt bands reserved against the greyish-blue scale ground enriched in gilt, gilt line rims
4 1/8 in. (10.3 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 30 June 1975, lot 60.
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge.

Specialist note

Charles Buteux l'aîné, recorded at Sèvres as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers, 1756-82