Details
The first a gobelet 'bouillard' et soucoupe, 1er grandeur, painted with ‘muddy’ landscapes within concentric bands of red and gilt brickwork and bleu celèste gilt with vine; the second painted with specimen flowers reserved within gilt medallions on a concentric wide border of tightly packed pink roses on a gilt seeded ground and a narrow blue band gilt with entwined foliate vine and grasses
538 in. (13.7 cm.) diameter, the saucer (the first)
638 in. (16.2 cm.) diameter, the saucer (the second)
Provenance
The first acquired W.W. Warner, Kent, May 2016.
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Lot Essay

For two similar examples of the second cup and saucer, see M. Brunet, T. Préaud, Sèvres Des origins a nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 221, nos. 291 and 292.

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