Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES I4I

Cup: Height: 2 /2 in. (6.3 cm); Width:
35 /8 in. (9.2 cm); Depth: 2 I3/i6 in. (7.1 cm);
Saucer: Height: 1% in. (3.2 cm); Diameter:
55 /i6 in. (13.5 cm)
Accession number 79.DE.65.a-.b

PROVENANCE
Private collection (sold, Christie's, London,
June 21,1976, lot 151); Mrs. John W.
Christner, Dallas (sold, Christie's, New
York, June 9, 1979, lot 227).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wilson, "Acquisitions 1979 to mid 1980,"

item B, p. 19, illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and

Sevres PorceUin, no. 20, pp. 102-105, illus.

pp. 103-104.

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235. Cup and Saucer {gobeht litron et
     soucoupe, deuxieme grandeur)
     Sevres manufactory, 1773
     Painted by Etienne-Jean Chabry; gilded by
     Michel-Barnabé Chauveaux ainé
     Soft-paste porcelain, bleu celeste ground
     color; polychrome enamel decoration;
     gilding
     Cup and saucer painted underneath with
     the blue crossed Z's of the Sevres manufac­
     tory enclosing the date letter U for 1773, and
     with Chabry's mark ch in blue; also painted
     with Chauveaux s mark # in gold. Saucer
     incised da underneath.

235

Cup: Height: 2^5 /s in. (6.7 cm); Width:

3Κ in. (8.9 cm); Depth: 2V16 in. (6.6 cm);

Saucer: Height: I^9 /I6 in. (3.9 cm); Diameter:

5%> in. (13.9 cm)

Accession number 79 .DE.64.a--b

PROVENANCE

Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 26,1977, lot

345; Mrs. John W. Christner, Dallas (sold,

Christie's, New York, June 9,1979, lot 226).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wilson, "Acquisitions 1979 to mid 1980,"

item C, p. 19, illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and

Sevres Porcelain, no. 22, pp. 112-114, illus.

pp. 113-114.