Tasse et soucoupe en porcelaine de Paris (Deroche), vers 1825 A Paris, Deroche, blue-ground cabinet cup and saucer, circa 1825 The cup raised on three gilt paw feet and with a gilt scroll handle and burnished gilt interior, reserved with a rectangular bust portrait of Jean Racine wearing a long wig, within gilt frame against a band of tooled gilt foliage and trophies on the blue ground, the saucer with two panels of trophies with books against a similar ground, the cup: 12.3cm high; the saucer: 17.2cm across, 'Deroche a Paris' in gilding on the cup and stencilled on the saucer, one foot inscribed 'Racine' in gilding (2) Footnotes: Provenance The Ikodinovic Collection, Brussels, 2000 (thence to the present owner) Literature Mauri, Luigi, Fragili Emozioni: Porcellane europee nel gusto di un collezionista lombardo, Milan, 2013, p. 27, cat. 12 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing