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Lot 182*

A Sèvres blue-ground portrait cup and saucer (tasse à chocolat AB et soucoupe), dated 1825-27

7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sèvres blue-ground portrait cup and saucer (tasse à chocolat AB et soucoupe), dated 1825-27

Painted with the portrait of François I, King of France, titled above, after the painting by Titian, within an oval panel surrounded by formal gilt borders heightened with platinum against a blue ground, gilt and platinum borders to the rim and footrim, applied with an elaborate gilt scroll handle, the saucer with a gilt flowerhead and similar gilt and platinum borders, the cup: 12.2cm high; the saucer: 15.7cm diam., interlaced LL monogram enclosing a fleur-de-lys/25 and 27 stencilled in blue, the saucer dated 25 9.bre 23 in green, the cup dated 29 av 24 E in green, both with gilders' and incised marks (handle restuck)

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Provenance:
Collection Manoel A. S. Braga (paper label to reverse of saucer)

The plaster model for this shape still exists; illustrated by Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. III (2009), p.1035.

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