Live Auction 16185A Love Affair with France: The Elizabeth Stafford Collection
A SEVRES PALE-GREEN GROUND ICE-CUP (TASSE ‘A GLACE’)
Lot 1159

A SEVRES PALE-GREEN GROUND ICE-CUP (TASSE ‘A GLACE’)

CIRCA 1758, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E, PAINTER’S MARK FOR FRANCOIS BINET

Closed1 November 2018

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A SEVRES PALE-GREEN GROUND ICE-CUP (TASSE ‘A GLACE’)
CIRCA 1758, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E, PAINTER’S MARK FOR FRANCOIS BINET
Edged with waves of gilt flowering vine suspending colorful flowers
2 ½ in. (6.2 cm.) high

With Lévy-Lacaze, Paris, 1968.

Specialist note

The present ice-cup may be either from a service given by Louis XV as a gift to Frederic V of Denmark or from a service acquired by the duc de Choiseul. See D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, no. 57-2, pp. 295-298 and no. 59-1, pp. 309-310.