Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 15th September 2015

Lot 189

A Vincennes cup and saucer c.1754

Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1700

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Description

A Vincennes cup and saucer c.1754, painted in blue, the cup with a putto seated on the ground beside a basket of flowers, the cinquefoil saucer with a further putto seated beside a goat, gilt dentil rims, blue interlaced LL marks and painter's mark for Viellard, 13.8cm. (2)

Cf. A covered cup and saucer with near identical decoration is in the collection at Upton House, Warwickshire.

Purchased from Sotheby's, 5th March 1985, lot 94.