Live Auction 10750The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'CALABRE' ET SOUCOUPE, 1ERE GRANDEUR)
Lot 8

A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'CALABRE' ET SOUCOUPE, 1ERE GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1754, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS AND INCISED MARKS TO BOTH

Closed25 November 2014

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'CALABRE' ET SOUCOUPE, 1ERE GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1754, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS AND INCISED MARKS TO BOTH
Decorated in gilding with two birds in flight within a shaped oval cartouche gilt with flowers and trellis, within gilt dentil rims (very minor scratches and wear to gilding)

The Collection of Hugh Burton-Jones, acquired in the 1930s or 1940s.
By descent to his daughter, Mrs K. Gifford-Scott.
Property of the Executors of the Late Mrs K. Gifford-Scrott; sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1984, lot 163.

Specialist note

The pair to this cup and saucer was in the collection of Hugh Burton-Jones and subsequently sold by Jean Loiseau and Alain Schmitz at the Hotel des Ventes, Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, France on 21 February 1988, lot 106. It was sold again at Sotheby's in New York on 20 May 1989, lot 68.