P059A - A SEVRES GILT TAILLANDIER BLUE-GROUND CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET ‘LITRON’ ET SA SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L’s enclosing I for 1761, painter’s mark for Viellard
Painted with figures catching love birds within an oeil-de-perdrix border
(wear to the gilding) (2)
Cup: 2 ½ in. (6.4 cm) high
Saucer: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm) diameter
LITERATURE
Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pp. 156-157, fig. 36.
EXIBITION
On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996