A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE ORNITHOLOGICAL ICE-CUP (TASSE A GLACE)

CIRCA 1760

细节

A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE ORNITHOLOGICAL ICE-CUP (TASSE A GLACE)
Circa 1760
Painted with a Coucou de la Chine reserved within a gilt ciselé band on the turquoise ground further gilt with foliate scrolls within beaded bands, gilt line rim and footrim
2½in. (6.3cm.) high

来源

Property from the Collection of J.J.Klejman, Sold by Order of the Present Owner; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 19 October 1974, lot 359
Anon. Sale, Christie's, New York, 27 May 1999, lot 144

拍品专文

The ornithological subject is likely taken from George Edwards' A Natural History of Uncommon Birds first published in France as Histoire naturelle des divers oiseaux in 1745 and 1748.

See The Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss; Christie's Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 179 for two more ice cups from the same service. A plate from the same service is offered as lot 75 in the present sale.