CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF NIDERVILLER PORCELAIN AND TOLE PEINTE BASKETS OF FLOWERS
Circa 1770
The pierced basket with an oval medallion to each side painted with blue, green and purple scattered cornflowers within gilt lines, the interiors similarly painted, the pierced work and handles enriched in blue, green and gilt, with tôle liner and mounted with various porcelain flowers on tôle peinte stems, minor chips and restorations to the flowers, the flowerheads late 18th Centuiry and with some replacements, with interlaced 'C's and inscribed '302' to the underside
13in. (33cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The fashion for dessert baskets filled with Vincennes porcelain flowerheads was no doubt initiated by the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux. Indeed, as his Livre Journal reveals, as early as December 1749, Duvaux sold to Madame Caze 'une grande corbeille de porcelaine, montée en bronze doré d'or moulu, remplie de branchages de laiton verni sur lesquels des fleurs de Vincennes assorties a chaque espece, prix fait 1,500l', repeated again in the folowing year when he sold to 'Monsieur le Cte. de Forcalquier, une corbeille de fleurs de Vincennes, 360l'.

A closely related pair of Niderviller baskets, although without flowerheads, was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 21 May 1997, lot 74.

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