Lot Essay
Cf. the example with gilt birds sold by Sotheby's on 15 November 1955, lot 92
Sold by Order of the Executors of
The Late SIR HENRY TATE Bt.
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BALUSTER MILK-JUG AND COVER (pot à lait ordinaire), each side painted with two birds in flight within a gilt flower, foliage and trellis cartouche, the handle flanked by gilt scrolls, the lip edged with pendant flowers, the shallow circular cover with a bird with an olive branch within a gilt flower and foliage cartouche and with gilt shell thumbpiece, gilt dentil rims (very minor gilding loss to top rim), blue interlaced L mark with a dot above, unidentified painter's mark of a cross and dot, circa 1753
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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BALUSTER MILK-JUG AND COVER (pot à lait ordinaire), each side painted with two birds in flight within a gilt flower, foliage and trellis cartouche, the handle flanked by gilt scrolls, the lip edged with pendant flowers, the shallow circular cover with a bird with an olive branch within a gilt flower and foliage cartouche and with gilt shell thumbpiece, gilt dentil rims (very minor gilding loss to top rim), blue interlaced L mark with a dot above, unidentified painter's mark of a cross and dot, circa 1753
12.5cm. high overall
12.5cm. high overall