A Sèvres two-handled cup (gobelet Cornet) circa 1791

painted by Guillaume Noël, with ovals of colourful flower branches, encircled by pearl-chains and linked by blue medallions with urns, against a yellow ground; small chips to foot and rim

Collection Chappey, illustrated by Frédéric Masson, « La Porcelaine de Sèvres, collection Chappey », Les Arts, 1905, p. 19 and 29.

Rim with one chip (ca. 3mm), the foot with three similar chips.
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This shape was designed by Louis Simon Boizot for Marie Antoinette service at Rambouillet dairy. A drawing preserved in the Sèvres Archives is inscribed : Gobelet de la Laiterie et sa soucoupe à qui l'on na donné la forme Cornet dans le Pre[mier] trais donné par M. Boizot il l'avoit marque n° 9 et il n'y avoit dans sa création point de soucoupe – cela a été créé en l'année 1786 et ce trait la a été refait en 1788 le 14 9bre. Selma Schwartz pointed out that the shape derived from the classical Kalathos and that both Caylus (1756) and Saint-Non (1786) published a silver example from excavated objets at Portici (Selma Schwartz, « The Sèvres porcelain service for Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet: an exercise in archeological neo-classicism», The French Porcelain Society Journal, IX, 1992, p. 16.