A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER 1792 and 1793

(gobelet à anse Boizot et soucoupe) each painted with oval gilt-edged panels of bird specimen issuing flower garlands suspended from a gilt-edged continuous border finely painted with birds in a landscape, both with interlaced L's in blue, the cup with date letter mark PP and the saucer with qq in blue, painter's mark for Étienne Evans and gilder's mark for Jean Chauvaux in blue, incised numerals and letters.

Some very minor occasional wear to gilding and some scratches to the surface of the saucer.
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A very similar pair of cups and saucers is illustrated by Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, p. 247, cat. no. 128, where the authors comment that some bird panels were rendered from George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, published in Paris between 1770 and 1786.