Tea service
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1785
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Place of origin
Sèvres
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446294
Summary
Sevres cabaret tea and coffee service painted with panels of mythological subjects, on a bleu de roi ground within gilt borders of vases and acanthus scroll. The cover of the teapot not matching. Maker's mark - interlaced L's, date letter for 1785, painter's mark for Dodin, LG gilder's mark, probably for Le Guay.
Makers and roles
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , manufacturer Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734 - 1803), artist Étienne Charles Le Guay (1762 – Paris 1846), gilder