Live Auction 2350500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
THREE SEVRES PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
Lot 511 PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION (LOTS 505-514)

THREE SEVRES PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS M, GG AND KK FOR 1765, 1784 AND 1788; PAINTER'S MARKS FOR MEREAUD L'AINE, BOULANGER AND NICQUET; INCISED 2 AND 40; 41 AND N; AND 41 AND 47; RESPECTIVELY

Closed22 October 2010

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USD 7,500

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THREE SEVRES PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS M, GG AND KK FOR 1765, 1784 AND 1788; PAINTER'S MARKS FOR MEREAUD L'AINE, BOULANGER AND NICQUET; INCISED 2 AND 40; 41 AND N; AND 41 AND 47; RESPECTIVELY
One painted with a frise riche of variant diaper patterns on red seeded ground; one with a vine of forget-me-nots entwined around a ribbon between further bands of scallops and lollipop flowers; and one with a foliate rinceau and medallions of roses between pale-blue bands decorated with swags
4¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter, the saucers (6)

With The Antique Porcelain Company, New York, (the last).

Specialist note

Pierre-Antoine Méreaud, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a flower and pattern painter and as a gilder, 1754-91.
Jean-Pierre Boulanger, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a gilder, 1754-85.
Nicquet is recorded at Sèvres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1764-92.