SET OF SÈVRES PORCELAIN WITH PUTTI DECORATION

Set consisting of a cup and two vases in Sevres porcelain with a large blue background in the Louis XVI style. The elements are mounted in gilt bronze and chased with handles decorated with grotesque masks and scrolls. The bottom is decorated with interlacing and enamelled pearls. The vases are painted with decorations of putti in clouds, playing with drapes or wreaths of flowers, inscribed in medallions decorated with turquoise enamelled pearls. They rest on pedestals decorated with white enamelled pearls and flowers. The bronze holds are gadrooned. The cup has a decoration of putti playing in reserves and baskets overflowing with flowers. The lid is decorated with two scenes: a gallant scene with a young man playing the flute and a landscape. The godronnée catch presents a decoration of flowers on the reverse. The reverse side of the lid bears the mark of the Château des Tuileries and the Manufacture de Sèvres of the year 1846.

Circa: 1850

Condition report: In good condition. Light wear to the gilding. Inside the bowl, small firing crack.