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A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762 image 1
A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762 image 2
A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762 image 3
A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762 image 4
A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762 image 5
A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762 image 6
Lot 204

A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762

1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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A Sèvres 'rose marbré' ground cup, cover and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), dated 1762

Of the second size, painted by Antoine-Joseph Chappuis with birds in landscapes against a rose marbré ground, the cover with a flower garland and applied with a flower finial, gilt dentil borders to the rims, the cup and cover 9.3cm high, the saucer 13.8cm diam, interlaced LL monograms enclosing date letter I and painter's mark cp for Chappuis (3)

Footnotes

Provenance
With W W Warner Antiques, 2011

Literature
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.205

Rose marbré (marbled) or chiné (Chinese cracked ice) ground decoration was only produced at Sèvres for a very short period between 1760 and 1763. It was a very time-consuming and intricate technique. The pink ground was fired first, then a blue coating added which was partially scraped off once dry, giving the marbled effect you can see in the present lot, and the gilding was added last (Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol.II, 1988, p.594).

Madame de Pompadour owned a number of rose marbré or chiné pieces, see Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres porcelain, Vol.II, 2021, pp.1001-1005, 1052 and 1058-1059.

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