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Lot 171

A pair of Sèvres cups and saucers, circa 1770

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Sèvres cups and saucers, circa 1770

Gobelet 'Bouillard', of the first size, each painted with a landscape vignette with various objects including tools, butcher's implements and objects emblematical of music and the arts, gilt dentil borders to the rims, the handles embellished in gilding, interlaced LL monograms in blue, incised cc and other indistinct marks (4)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale in these Rooms, 6 July 2010, lot 281

A cup and saucer closely similar in style and dated 1771 was in the Elizabeth Parkes Firestone Collection, sold Christie's New York, 21-22 March 1991, lot 218.

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