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A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDUER)
- BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX L'AINE, INCISED S TO BOTH

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDUER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX L'AINE, INCISED S TO BOTH
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    $3,000 - $5,000

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





Lot Description

A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND ECAILLE' SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDUER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX L'AINE, INCISED S TO BOTH
Painted with musical trophies within chased gilt bands reserved against the greyish-blue scale ground enriched in gilt, gilt line rims
4 1/8 in. (10.3 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

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FURTHER PROVENANCE
The Rene Fribourg Collection; Sotheby's, London, Part V - 15 October 1963, lot 415.

The sugar-bowl from the déjeuner for which the present cup and saucer was made was sold as lot 414 in the Fribourg auction. The lozenge-shape tray was sold through Christie's, New York, 21 October 2005 and is now in a private collection.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 30 June 1975, lot 60.
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge.

Lot Notes

Charles Buteux l'aîné, recorded at Sèvres as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers, 1756-82

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