Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A SEVRES CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET ET SOUCOUPE ENFONCE)
Lot 111 ANOTHER PROPERTY

A SEVRES CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET ET SOUCOUPE ENFONCE)

1769, INTERLACED BLUE L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHARLES-NICOLAS DODIN, INCISED X AND A MARKS

Closed10 June 2010

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A SEVRES CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET ET SOUCOUPE ENFONCE)
1769, INTERLACED BLUE L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Q, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHARLES-NICOLAS DODIN, INCISED X AND A MARKS
The cup of tapering cylindrical form, painted with a girl crying over a basket of broken eggs and a gardener, the saucer with a shepherdess and a hound and a youth setting a trap, within gilt oval cartouches on a bleu nouveau ground gilt with cell-pattern (minor wear to gilt rims)

Specialist note

Charles-Nicolas Dodin was a painter of figures and trophies at Sèvres from 1754 to 1803.

For a cup and saucer of similar type see Jeffrey H. Munger et al., The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston, 1992), p. 193, cat. no. 141.