- Cup and Saucer (gobelet litron et
soucoupe)
Sevres manufactory, 1781
Ground color painted by Antoine Capelle;
the painted reserve and cameos attributed
to Pierre-André Le Guay; flat gilding by
Etienne-Henri Le Guay; enamel jeweling
by Philippe Parpette
Soft-paste porcelain, brown ground color
{\f\merded'oie); polychrome enamel decora
tion; enamels in imitation of jewels; gilding
and gold foils
Cup and saucer both painted underneath
with the blue crossed Z's of the Sevres
manufactory enclosing the date letters DD
for 1781, and with Capelles blue triangular
mark. Saucer also painted with the gilder
Le Guay s mark LG in blue. Saucer is incised
44; cup is incised 36a and 6. Saucer bears
a paper label under the base inked Colin,
of the Marchioness of Conyngham ipo8.
RM. Wood Esq.Cup: Height: 234 in. (6.9 cm); Depth:
3 n/i6 in. (9.4 cm); Saucer: Height: i^3 /s in.
(3.6 cm); Diameter: 5 /16 in. (13.5 cm)
Accession number 8i.DE.28.a-.bPROVENANCE
Jane, Marchioness of Conyngham (wife
of the 3rd Marquess, married 1854, diedCup, front view 2381907), London and Ascot, Berkshire (sold,
Christie's, London, May 4,1908, lot 289,
to [Harding] for 1629 guineas 15s); R. M.
Wood, London (sold, Christie's, London,
May 27,1919, lot 96, to [Mallett's, London],
for 152 guineas 12s); Henry Walters, New
York (sold by his widow, Parke-Bernet, New
York, November 30,1943, lot 1009); private
collection, New York (sold, Christie's, New
York, December 3,1977, lot 166); [Armin Β.
Allen, New York, 1977].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adrian Sassoon, "Two Acquisitions of
Sevres Porcelain," GettyMusJ10 (1982),
pp. 87-90, illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 40,
pp. 80-81, illus.; Adrian Sassoon, "Sevres:
Luxury for the Court," Techniques of the
Worlds Great Masters of Tottery and Ceramics,
Hugo Morley-Fletcher, ed. (Oxford, 1984),
pp. 52-57, illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and
Sevres Porcelain, no. 24, pp. 119-124, illus.
pp. 120-121,123, and 125.144 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES
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