Live Auction 10750The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND SMALL CUP AND SAUCER
Lot 17

A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND SMALL CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS, PAINTER'S & MARK, THE CUP WITH INCISED X WITHIN A SQUARE AND IMPRESSED O MARK, THE SAUCER WITH INCISED LINE

Closed25 November 2014

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND SMALL CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS, PAINTER'S & MARK, THE CUP WITH INCISED X WITHIN A SQUARE AND IMPRESSED O MARK, THE SAUCER WITH INCISED LINE
Each painted with two exotic birds in flight, holding leafy branches, within a cartouche edged with gilt flowers and foliage, the cup with a foliate scroll ring handle enriched in gilding (slight scratching to enamels, very minor wear to gilding)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 March 1976, lot 74.
With Winifred Williams, London, from whom it was acquired on 31 March 1976.

Specialist note

For a small cup and saucer of this form, described as a 'tasse à toilette' see Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 1977-78, p. 115, no. 318. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. I, p. 97 for the ampersand mark used by this unattributed painter who the author notes was a painter of birds active at Vincennes and Sevres from 1753 to 1761.