Ice Cup #1

This is a rare ice cup made by Sevres around 1762. The ice cup, tasse à glace or tasse à sorbet was used as a palate cleanser between the elaborate courses of the French dinner banquets of the period. The simple, refined decoration of this cup was featured on large dinner services of the period and is a favorite of serious collectors. (No saucer or under-plate was used with the ice cup.) It is made of soft paste porcelain and is in superb condition with a tiny amount of wear to the gilding on the handle. It is the honey gold they used which has a nice color and is thickly applied. One firing flaw in the bottom inside in the form of a piece of dirt. The enamel colors of the flowers are amazing. Not flat like the Paris copies but alive looking. You can feel them with your fingers as you run over them. The piece is handpainted with a famous design by them with the flowers and the blue and gold trim. The piece is marked with the blue interlaced LL mark with the letter i or j. Also incised letter HC maybe (hard to make out). The piece is 2.5 inches tall and 2.25 inches in diameter. Please email me for more information or other pictures.