Live Auction 16185A Love Affair with France: The Elizabeth Stafford Collection
TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS
Lot 1148

TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS

CIRCA 1757-60, THE FIRST WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D AND PAINTERS MARK FOR LE GUAY L'AINE, THE CUP INCISED OO AND THE SAUCER I, THE SECOND WITH INCISED FR TO THE SAUCER AND SP AND AB TO THE CUP

Closed1 November 2018

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1757-60, THE FIRST WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D AND PAINTERS MARK FOR LE GUAY L'AINE, THE CUP INCISED OO AND THE SAUCER I, THE SECOND WITH INCISED FR TO THE SAUCER AND SP AND AB TO THE CUP
The first a gobelet ‘Hebert’ et soucoupe painted with trophies within gilt-enriched foliate cartouches, the second a gobelet ‘Bouillard’ et soucoupe with alternate spirals of flower garlands and green scalloped ribbons gilt with foliate scrolls
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) diameter, the first saucer

The Christner Collection; Christie’s, New York, 9 June 1979, lot 246 (the first).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 5 May 1977, lot 164 (the second).

Specialist note

Étienne-Henry Le Guay l'aîné is recorded as a painter of friezes and a gilder at the Sèvres manufactory from 1748-49 and 1751-96.