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Sèvres Ice Cup
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Dates
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1788
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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Rare Sèvres tasse à glace
Sèvres ice cup (Tasse à glace), painted by Francoise-Sophie Fontaine with a beau bleu and gilded spot geometric pattern, pois et zone bleu, purchased by Carlos-Jose Gutierrez de los Rios Y Rohan-Chabot – Conde De Fernan Nunez Spanish Ambassador to France from 4/10/1787 – 17/9/1791 Successor to the ***Count of Aranda.
Date letters LL for 1788
*** The Count of Aranda, the Spanish Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France, visited Paris between the years 1773-1787. He was also a principal advisor to King Carlos III of Spain.
A 1788 Sèvres tasse à glace, by Mlle Fontaine is displayed in the Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg (see Birioukova and Kazakevitch, Hermitage Museum Collection, pp 232, 233, No 1063, Illus.)
See Sèvres plates and services of the 18th century IV – David Peters
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