£5,500
19th century Sevres porcelain presentation tazza or ‘Coupe Cybele’ for the Paris Exposition 1878, awarded to a Prize Bull, circular with everted rim, the centre with pate-sur-pate portrait of Cybele, decorated with scrolling foliage and wheatears on yellow ground, cream, gilt and royal blue scroll and motif in a border, the exterior border decorated with circular roundels and gilt motifs, fruit, floral and wheatear garland to bleu celeste ground, with panel inscribed ‘Exposition Universelle Paris ’78, on urn-shaped column with scroll supports, laurel leaf garland, all in royal blue and gilt, stepped circular base with four yellow shaped medallions, inscribed ‘Sevres, 1878, Paris Exposition’, 37cm diameter x 26.5cm high
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