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Lot 1222 Dα

A Sèvres porcelain cup, saucer and sugar box from a déjeuner

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 13.750 € (incl. premium)
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A Sèvres porcelain cup, saucer and sugar box from a déjeuner

Decorated with a frieze of trompe l'oeil tendrils and swirls surrounding cameo portraits of warriors and generals of antiquity. Pale blue stamped double-L mark, incised marks, gold "FB.20." (box). A chip to the finial of the box. H of cup 7.8, D of saucer 14.1, H of sugar box 15.5 cm.
Circa 1820.

Provenance

Private collection, Rome.

Literature

This cup design with various decorative programmes designed by Bodson in March 1815, published in Préaud (ed.), The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800 – 1847, New Haven-London 1997, no. 38.