Lot 178
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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TANKARD AND COVER (GOBELET LITRON COUVERT)

Details
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TANKARD AND COVER (GOBELET LITRON COUVERT)
BLUE UNDERGLAZED INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER A FOR 1753, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK AND INCISED 4

With loop handle enriched with gilding, the cover with chrysanthemum finial and painted in colours with loose bouquets within shaped cartouches edged with gilt grasses and flowers within gilt dentil rims--5½in. (14cm.) high
Exhibited
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 430a-b

Lot Essay

See Svend Eriksen & Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain,
no. 92 for a bleu lapis covered tankard of the same date with the same incised number.