Sèvres – Green-ground Hébert cup and saucer with birds and gilded

Description:
A soft-paste porcelain Hébert-style cup and saucer with a vivid green ground, painted with colorful birds in flight and decorated with gilt laurel garlands and oeil-de-perdrix (partridge eye) ornamentation.

The cup bears the underglaze blue interlaced L’s with date letter L for 1764, along with the mark of the 18th-century Sèvres painter Evans.

Dimensions: Height 7 cm, Diameter 15.5 cm

Provenance:
This piece was likely part of a dessert service delivered on 14 May 1765 to Claude Bonnet, rent administrator and Paris agent to the Duke of Parma, Philip I (1720–1765), husband of Louise-Élisabeth of France (1727–1759), daughter of Louis XV.

Much of the service remains today in the Quirinal Palace in Rome. The set also included a large tea service with 48 cups and saucers, two teapots, and two milk jugs, of which part was sold at Sotheby’s London on 4 July 2018 (lot 17).

Condition Report: Good condition overall, clean glaze and well-preserved gilding, no restoration.