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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES 4EME GRANDEUR)
- BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER AA FOR 1778 AND PAINTER'S MARKS FOR NOEL AND CHAPPUIS, ONE CUP INCISED 27, THE SAUCERS INCISED 36

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES 4EME GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER AA FOR 1778 AND PAINTER'S MARKS FOR NOEL AND CHAPPUIS, ONE CUP INCISED 27, THE SAUCERS INCISED 36
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    $5,000 - $7,000

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





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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' CUPS AND SAUCERS (GOBELETS 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPES 4EME GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER AA FOR 1778 AND PAINTER'S MARKS FOR NOEL AND CHAPPUIS, ONE CUP INCISED 27, THE SAUCERS INCISED 36
Painted with roundels of birds in flight, within a chased gilt border reserved against a blue and gold scale ground
4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) diameter (4)

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Provenance

With The Antique Porcelain Co., Ltd., London, November 1956 (one).
Lord Cholmondeley (the other).
The Antique Porcelain Co., Ltd., London, December 1959 (the other).
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge.

Literature

Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 565, 569, footnote 26.

Lot Notes

The present cups and saucers were originally part of a large tea service. The teapot, sugar-bowl, waste bowl, two cups and saucers similar to the present examples and two slightly larger are to be found at Knole. The cream-jug is in the Wallace Collection, London. It is known from the kiln records that the present cups and saucers were fired on 12 April 1778. The 'fond écaille' pattern was specialty of Noël.

Guillaume Noël, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1775-1800.
Antoine-Joseph Chappuis, recorded at Sèvres as a painted of birds and flowers, 1761-87.

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