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

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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)

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

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.

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