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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PALE-YELLOW GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES, 3EME GRANDEUR)
- PURPLE OR PUCE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK FOR 1787, THREE WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR MME NOUALHIER, ONE SAUCER WITH MARK FOR ROGUIER

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PALE-YELLOW GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES, 3EME GRANDEUR)
PURPLE OR PUCE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK FOR 1787, THREE WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR MME NOUALHIER, ONE SAUCER WITH MARK FOR ROGUIER
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(Set Currency)
    $3,000 - $5,000

Sale Information

Sale 2350
500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
21 - 22 October 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PALE-YELLOW GROUND CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES, 3EME GRANDEUR)
PURPLE OR PUCE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK FOR 1787, THREE WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR MME NOUALHIER, ONE SAUCER WITH MARK FOR ROGUIER
Each variantly painted with rebus puzzles, purple bands and further flowering swags and scrollwork, the sides with either braziers or vases, gilt line rims
4¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter, the saucers (4)

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Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION (LOT 608)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 February 1976, lot 82.
Sir J.H. Plumb, no. 99.

Lot Notes

There are two rebuses on each cup and three on each saucer. Translations of all but three (one on the cup on the left and two on the saucer at the right) are available as part of the condition report.
Marie Noualhier and Jeanne-Josèphine Roguier are recorded as a painters of flowers and patterns at Sèvres from 1762-98 and 1782-93, respectively.

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