A VINCENNES CREAM-POT and a cover, (Marmite ou pot à bouillon) in the Meissen style, with scroll handle, pointed spout moulded with a gilt acanthus leaf and standing on three gilt paw feet, painted with harbour scenes, one side with a lady seated on a barrel before a merchant and his horse, ships and figures in the distance, the other side with a street crier, her arms akimbo conversing with a man leaning on his horse, a sphinx to one side within gilt scroll cartouches with foliage and flowers, the cover with putti seated on clouds within gilt cartouches and with gilt finial (one foot repaired, minute chip to tip of spout, slight rubbing to gilding on feet), blue D mark to underside rim of cover, circa 1749-52

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A VINCENNES CREAM-POT and a cover, (Marmite ou pot à bouillon) in the Meissen style, with scroll handle, pointed spout moulded with a gilt acanthus leaf and standing on three gilt paw feet, painted with harbour scenes, one side with a lady seated on a barrel before a merchant and his horse, ships and figures in the distance, the other side with a street crier, her arms akimbo conversing with a man leaning on his horse, a sphinx to one side within gilt scroll cartouches with foliage and flowers, the cover with putti seated on clouds within gilt cartouches and with gilt finial (one foot repaired, minute chip to tip of spout, slight rubbing to gilding on feet), blue D mark to underside rim of cover, circa 1749-52
15cm. high overall (2)

Lot Essay

The example of similar form but with a narrower neck is illustrated by Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, p. 141, no. 85. The inventory for October 1752 lists 'trois marmites miniatures mauvaises' at 10 livres each and two others with flowers. See Tamara Preúd and Antoine d'Albis, ibid., p. 139, no. 80 for a night-light perhaps painted by the same hand; see also the example sold in these Rooms on 3 July 1978, lot 157

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