Lot 167
167
A VINCENNES TWO-HANDLED VASE (VASE DUPLESSIS À FLEURS BALUSTRE ROCAILLE)

Details
A VINCENNES TWO-HANDLED VASE (VASE DUPLESSIS À FLEURS BALUSTRE ROCAILLE)
CIRCA 1752

Of baluster shape, gilt with loose bouquets and painted in colours with insects flanked by interlaced gilt branch handles and applied with trailing branches of colourful flowers on a flaring rockwork base (some minor chipping to flowers and foliage)--9in. (23cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, November 8, 1960, lot 168

Lot Essay

The comparable example in the Victoria & Albert Museum is illustrated by W.B. Honey: French Porcelain, London 1972, pl. 52. It is part of a garniture of three from the Fitzhenry Gift, (c357-359-1909). Others are discussed and listed by Préaud and Fäy-Hallé, figs. 422-425.