A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CAISSE A FLEURS UNIE, with gilt-edged foliage handles, the front painted with children with a basket of fruit and grapes in a wooded landscape vignette, the reverse with a turreted building by a wooded lakeside within shaped gilt scrolls and trailing flower cartouches beneath a gilt dentil rim (rubbing to gilding), underglaze blue interlaced L marks, enclosing date letter C for 1755, painter's mark for Vieillard, incised script X and D, 1775 | Christie's

Lot 168

168

A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CAISSE A FLEURS UNIE, with gilt-edged foliage handles, the front painted with children with a basket of fruit and grapes in a wooded landscape vignette, the reverse with a turreted building by a wooded lakeside within shaped gilt scrolls and trailing flower cartouches beneath a gilt dentil rim (rubbing to gilding), underglaze blue interlaced L marks, enclosing date letter C for 1755, painter's mark for Vieillard, incised script X and D, 1775

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CAISSE A FLEURS UNIE, with gilt-edged foliage handles, the front painted with children with a basket of fruit and grapes in a wooded landscape vignette, the reverse with a turreted building by a wooded lakeside within shaped gilt scrolls and trailing flower cartouches beneath a gilt dentil rim (rubbing to gilding), underglaze blue interlaced L marks, enclosing date letter C for 1755, painter's mark for Vieillard, incised script X and D, 1775
29 cm wide

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Lot Essay

André-Vincent Vieillard working period 1752-1790.

C.f T. Préaud and A. Faÿ-Hallé, Porcelaine de Vincennes, Exhibition Catalogue, p. 39 no. 57 for an example of similar shape.

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