Antique and important cup with shell-shaped saucer, Dagoty manufacture

Description: Important and antique cup with matching First Empire saucer (1804/1814): click here. Both the cup and matching saucer are in the shape of a shell: white and gold with a red handle in the shape of a coral branch, gold interior. The cup, on the underside (photo n°10), bears the garnet red mark Dagoty à Paris while, under the saucer, also in garnet red (photo n°9), we find the inscription P. L. Dagoty à Paris (Pierre Louis Dagoty). Made of hard-paste porcelain with thick gilding around 1810 in the Dagoty porcelain factory in Paris: the rich gilding and vivid red enamel decoration on this cup and saucer are characteristic elements of Dagoty porcelain. Initially, the company was founded at the end of the 18th century near rue de Chevreuse and Boulevard Poissonnière by the three brothers: Pierre Louis, Etienne Jean Baptiste and Isidore Dagoty but, from 1801, with the death of two of the three brothers, Pierre Louis (1771-1840) continued the business alone. Despite the fact that there were various important porcelain factories in the area in those years (exactly 19), Dagoty's excelled also thanks to an important award won in 1806. It assumed the name of Manufacture de S. M. Impériale acquiring, in addition to important commissions, imperial and royal protection. Cups like these are present in the collection of the Museum of Ceramics at Palazzo Pitti in Florence as well as in France at the National Ceramics Museum of Sèvres. The antique cup with saucer is in excellent condition: cup measurements cm.7x7; h.7 (handle protrusion: cm.3). Saucer measurement: cm.14.5x13.5.