Details
The first painted and gilt with figures and animals within shaped rectangular panels reserved on a claret ground, including a monkey and hound, alternate with mint-green medallions of butterflies; the second painted and enriched in gilt with figures on terraces, the center of the saucer with a butterfly
414 in. (10.6 cm.) diameter, the saucer (each)

Provenance
Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste in New York; Christie’s, New York, 22 October 2020, lots 60 & 62.
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Louis-François L’ Écot is recorded as a gilder and painter of chinoiseries, arabesques and butterflies at the manufactory from 1761-64 and 1772-1800.

The attribution to Dieu of the painting on the second cup and saucer is based on a comparison between it and the very similar marked example in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London [C.759A-1925]. See A. Dawson, "Sèvres Porcelain in the V: New Light on some Eighteenth Century Hard-Paste Rarities", French Porcelain Society Journal, vol. II, 2005, pp. 8-10, figs. 9-11.

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