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Lot 179*

A Sèvres cup and saucer (gobelet hébert et soucoupe), dated 1758

6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sèvres cup and saucer (gobelet hébert et soucoupe), dated 1758

Of the second (cup) and third size (saucer), painted by Vincent Taillandier with a trellis pattern of green-ground ribbons heightened with gilt flower heads, interspersed with flower sprigs, the cup: 6.1cm high, the saucer: 12cm diam., interlaced LL monogram in blue enclosing date letter E, painter's mark for Taillandier, incised marks (2)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 26 February 1963, lot 14;
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 36;
Vincennes & Sevres Porcelain from a New England Collection, Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 42;
Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private Collection

Occasionally gobelet hébert of one size were matched with saucers of another size, as is the case in the present lot; see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (1988), Vol II, p. 497.

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