Rare AB-shaped hard-paste porcelain cup and saucer with blue background, decorated in gold and platinum with foliate friezes including a frieze of oak leaves at the top edge, the center of the saucer decorated with a fleur-de-lys rosette, the cup with polychrome decoration in the center in a medallion of a bust portrait of Marie-Thérèse de France, Duchesse d'Angoulême (1778-1851), daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, from an original by François Villiers-Huet (1772-1813) circa 1810, framed by burnished gold palmettes at the corners, flanked on either side by her coat of arms as Dauphine de France within a garlanded crown of lilies, the handle and interior entirely gilded. Good condition.

Preserved in their original shaped case sheathed in green morocco gilded with roulette friezes (wear), cream silk interior.

Manufacture royale de Sèvres, 1826.

Blue stamp with King Charles X's figure, dated (18)26, gilders' marks Richard and Durosey.

Provenance

This cup and saucer were purchased for 350 francs cash and delivered on December 17, 1826 to Madame la Duchesse de Tourzel, née Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ d'Havré (1749-1832), the last governess of the children of France and therefore of the Duchesse d'Angoulême (Archives de Sèvres, Vz4, 239 v°).

€3,000/5,000