A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Pair of Saint-Cloud Kakiemon Cups and Trembleuse Saucers, Circa 1740
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October 18, 02:08 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of Saint-Cloud Kakiemon Cups and Trembleuse Saucers, Circa 1740
painted with flowering prunus and bamboo issuing from banded hedges and rockwork, the cups with branch handle, the saucers with raised lobed gallery.
Width of Saucers 5 in.
12.7 cm
The Alexander Collection;
Christie's London, April 30, 1999, lot 285
Christie's London, April 30, 1999, lot 285
An example is in the British Museum, London, reg. no. Franks.338, illustrated in Sir A. W. Franks, Catalogue of a Collection of Continental Porcelain lent to the Bethnal Green Museum, South Kensington Museum, London, 1896, no. 338. Most recently an example in the Sarah Belk Gambrell Collection of European Porcelain was sold at Doyle New York, June 24, 2021, lot 38. Another was sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Collection of Mrs. H. Dupuy, April 2, 1948, lot 260.