Online Auction 20673The Collector: English & European Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A SEVRES PORCELAIN GOLD AND LAVENDER GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Lot 23The Augustus Collection of Important French and Continental Porcelain, Part I

A SEVRES PORCELAIN GOLD AND LAVENDER GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1785, GILT CROWNED INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER HH, PAINTER'S MARK FOR N. SINSSON, GILDER'S MARK FOR A.-J. LA FRANCE

Closed5 April 2022

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN GOLD AND LAVENDER GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1785, GILT CROWNED INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER HH, PAINTER'S MARK FOR N. SINSSON, GILDER'S MARK FOR A.-J. LA FRANCE
Finely painted with portrait roundels surrounded by polychrome scrollwork including paired long necked birds on a gilt ground, within further bands of ovolo and foliate scroll motifs, the center of the saucer with a green flower-head
5 1⁄2 in. (14 cm.) diameter, the saucer

Acquired from Adrian Sassoon, London, 2015.

Specialist note

Nicolas Sinsson is recorded as a painter of flowers and patterns at the manufactory from 1773-1795.
André-Joseph La France is recorded as a painter of flowers and a gilder at the manufactory from 1776-1803, and again from 1813-1828.

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