Queen Marie Antoinette L725/4519 Tasses Historiques - Ancienne Manufacture Royale

Edition of a cup produced by the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1773.
It represents Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) and is part of a set of two cups bearing the effigies of the latter and Louis XVI.
The decoration of these two cups and saucers called "litron cup" is composed in the same way but vary in the design of the friezes.
On the A Queen Marie Antoinette mug is a crimson-bottomed medallion surrounded by palms of gold, with the queen's profile painted in “greyness” in the center to create the illusion of a cameo. The author is Pithou the elder, his very fine drawing emphasizes the details of the face and the lace of his dress bringing out the shadows and the lights in a very subtle way.
The cup and saucer are decorated with a large frieze of scrolled flowers surrounded on both sides by bands of arabesques of burnished gold, painted by the very talented Henri Francois Vincent, the young, gilder at Sèvres. The choice of floral patterns is an ode to the elegance and femininity of the Queen as well as her passion for botany and nature.

The original of this cup is kept at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris.

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