Online Auction 20673The Collector: English & European Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A SEVRES PORCLEAIN 'BLEU NOUVEAU' 'JEWELED' CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Lot 30The Augustus Collection of Important French and Continental Porcelain, Part I

A SEVRES PORCLEAIN 'BLEU NOUVEAU' 'JEWELED' CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1784, GILT INTERLACED L'S MARK, PAINTER'S MARK FOR E.-H. LE GUAY L'AINE

Closed5 April 2022

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A SEVRES PORCLEAIN 'BLEU NOUVEAU' 'JEWELED' CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1784, GILT INTERLACED L'S MARK, PAINTER'S MARK FOR E.-H. LE GUAY L'AINE
Each with flower-heads formed as 'rubies' surrounded by 'pearls' inside entertwined raised gilt garlands, all between further 'pearl' bands, the cup with a gilt band of berried laurel, the saucer with a central gilt flower-head medallion surrounded by a berried laurel
flori-form
5 1⁄2 in. (14 cm.) diameter, the saucer

Lady Dorothy Neville (1826–1913).
Acquired from W.W. Warner Antiques, Brasted, Kent, 2017.

Specialist note

For a discussion of the technique of jeweling, in vogue for a very short time, partly due to the time and expense involved and the inherently fragile nature of the applied bosses, see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988,vol.III, pp. 972-973; also A. Sassoon, Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain - J.Paul Getty Museum Collection, Malibu, 1991, pp. 119-125.

Étienne-Henry Le Guay l'aîné is recorded as gilder specializing in friezes at the Vincennes and Sèvres manufactory from 1748 to 1749 and from 1751 to 1797.

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