Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET LITRON)
Lot 113 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE

A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET LITRON)

1787, GREY INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER KK, PAINTER'S P.B. MARKS FOR JEAN-JOSEPH BOUCOT, GILDER'S HP FOR HENRI-MARTIN PREVOST, INCISED 41 AND 11 TO CAN AND 29 TO SAUCER

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 3,500

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A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET LITRON)
1787, GREY INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER KK, PAINTER'S P.B. MARKS FOR JEAN-JOSEPH BOUCOT, GILDER'S HP FOR HENRI-MARTIN PREVOST, INCISED 41 AND 11 TO CAN AND 29 TO SAUCER
Painted in brown monochrome with amatory trophies within oval cartouches flanked by smoking urns and scrolling foliage and swags beneath a border of blue and purple scrolling foliage reserved with oval panels of flowers and simulated marble, gilt line rims

Specialist note

Jean-Joseph Boucot was a painter of flowers, patterns and birds at Sèvres from 1785 to 1791, and Henri-Martin Prévost was a gilder active at Sèvres from 1757 to 1797.