Each finely painted with a putto reclining among the clouds, one nibbling a bunch of grapes, the other stringing a garland, a quiver of arrows beside him, within a gilt ciselé rocaille and floral surround, the saucer's cartouche surmounted by a perched bird, the cup's cartouche flanked by birds in flight, its footrim with a band of gilt flower-heads, both with gilt dentil rims
6¹⁄₈ in. (15.5 cm.) diameter, the saucer

Collection of Madame M.; Ader Tajan, Hôtel George V, Paris, 18 November 1992, lot 16.
Anonymous sale; Baron Ribeyre & Associés, Paris, 16 March, 2017, lot 112.

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Charles-Nicolas Dodin was one of the most accomplished painters active at the Sèvres and Vincennes factories. First recorded as a painter at Vincennes in 1754, the present cup and saucer are from the very beginning of his celebrated career. In 1757-8 he began specializing in painting colored reserves and was probably the only manufactory artist to work directly from original paintings as well as from engravings. He painted a wide variety of subjects, ranging from hunting scenes and portraits to pastorals after Boucher and Fragonard, as well as finely painted genre scenes. In 1773-4 he was regarded as 'le plus habile peintre de l'atelier pour porcelaine tendre' (see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. III, pp.1029-31).