SEVRES (soft porcelain): - Lot 341

SEVRES (soft porcelain): Two porcelain ice cups with polychrome decoration of bouquets of flowers in a reserve surrounded by gold palms and garlands of flowers on a green background. Scrolled handle. Gold wolf teeth on rim. Marked in blue: LL interlaced, date letter K for 1763, Binet painter's mark. 18th century. (Minor edge wear on one of the two cups). H: 7 cm. These ice cups come from the service delivered to Henri Léonard Jean-Baptiste Bertin, Secretary of State and Controller-General of Finance, on May 1, 1763. This service included thirty-six ice cups at 16 livres each. Bibliography: David Peters, Sèvres plates and services of the 18th century, 2005, vol. II, n° 63-3, pp. 357-359. Provenance: Etude Pescheteau-Badin, Drouot Paris, June 3, 2021, lot 210.