SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN PINK MARBLE-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET...
The cup painted with a circular cartouche depicting Jupiter as an eagle crowning a dolphin, with a white lily and a pink rose growing from a mound at the right, the other side with a rebus and two geese within a conjoined double wreath cartouche, the saucer with gilt interlaced L's enclosing a dolphin holding a rose and a lily, the border with three gilt medallions enclosing a rose and a lily, each issuing a gilt wreath with grasses and laurel leaves, between gilt-edged pink simulated marble bands reserved with 'pearls'
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Anonymous sale; Christie’s New York, 21 November 2008, lot 191.
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The cup painted with a circular cartouche depicting Jupiter as an eagle crowning a dolphin, with a white lily and a pink rose growing from a mound at the right, the other side with a rebus and two geese within a conjoined double wreath cartouche, the saucer with gilt interlaced L's enclosing a dolphin holding a rose and a lily, the border with three gilt medallions enclosing a rose and a lily, each issuing a gilt wreath with grasses and laurel leaves, between gilt-edged pink simulated marble bands reserved with 'pearls'
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie’s New York, 21 November 2008, lot 191.