A Sèvres (Hard-Paste) Porcelain Faux Marbre-Ground 'Dauphin' Cup and Saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe), circa 1781
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October 22, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Bid
2,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Sèvres (Hard-Paste) Porcelain Faux Marbre-Ground 'Dauphin' Cup and Saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe), circa 1781
of the second size, the cup painted with cartouche showing Jupiter as an eagle crowning a dolphin, beside a pink rose and a lily growing from a mound, the verso with a medallion of a rebus and two geese within a conjoined double wreath cartouche flanked by a pink rose and a lily, the saucer with gilt interlaced L's enclosing a dolphin holding a rose and a lily, the border with three gilt medallions enclosing a rose and a lily, the cartouches formed of wreaths with grasses and laurel wreaths in two-colour gilding, the borders painted in pink to simulate marble reserving bands of 'pearls', crowned interlaced LL marks in purple enclosing date letters DD or dd for 1781, painter's mark F for Jean-Armand Fallot (active at Sèvres between 1764-88 1790), indistinct incised cursive letters to cup
diameter of saucer 5 5/8 in.
14.2 cm
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 21 November, 2008, lot 191;
Property from a Private European Collection, Christie's, New York, 23 April, 2024, lot 37;
Where acquired by the present collector.
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