A Sèvres (Hard Paste) Porcelain Two-Handled Cup and Stand (Coupe à bouillon hémisphérique), circa 1810
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Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Bid
3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Sèvres (Hard Paste) Porcelain Two-Handled Cup and Stand (Coupe 'Hemispherique a Bouillon'), circa 1810
elaborately painted with lozenge-shaped panels in claret and brown, reserving alternating motifs including shields and military trophies, flaming torches, paterae, peacocks, lyres and caduceus, reserved on a buff-coloured ground painted with interlinked purple and blue flowers and scrolls, the rims with triangular panels of anthemion, the cup interior richly gilt, on a spreading foot gilt with gadroons on a green ground, the center of the stand with a burnished gold rosette on on a green ground, the cup with incised letters DL, H and JZ, the stand incised letters dc and numeral 73.12 mark
diameter of stand 8 7/8 in.
22.5 cm
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 3 June, 2014, lot 51;
Michele Beiny, Inc., New York;
From whom acquired by the present collector on 3 November, 2021.
The form is first recorded in a drawing, probably by Claude-Charles Gérard, inscribed Coupe à bouillon et sa soucoupe à deux anses à moulures, ['Bouillon cup and saucer with two moulded handles'] and dated to Year XI (February-March 1803). The designation coupe à bouillon hémisphérique appears only later, first occurring on a drawing by Charles-Éloi Asselin dated 1804 (Sèvres, Cité de la Céramique, inv. 2011.3.2105, ill. 1). See T. Préaud, The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 175, cat. no. 10.
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