A SET OF SIX SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE ORNITHOLOGICAL ICE CUPS, CIRCA 1775, VARIOUS INCISED POTTER'S MARKS

A SET OF SIX SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE ORNITHOLOGICAL ICE CUPS
CIRCA 1775, VARIOUS INCISED POTTER'S MARKS
Each finely painted with a variant bird, identified on the underside, surrounded by gilt garlands and reeds, with a gilt enriched scroll handle
2 in. (5 cm.) high

Provenance

Likely from a service delivered 12 April 1775 to M. Le Grand for the marquis Diranda (Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea Ximinez de Urréa, Conde de Aranda Marqués de Torres, de Vellanant y de Rupit, Spanish Ambassador-Extraordinary to France from 1773-87).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 29 October 1973, lot 11.
Mrs. John W. Christner, Dallas, Texas; Christie’s, New York, 1 December 1979, lot 187.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 1998, lot 156.