A ST. CLOUD SEAU À VERRE with gargoyle-mask handles, painted in a famille verte palette with Orientals holding parasols and fans at discussion beside a table, the reverse with three figures in a boat beside huts on wooded rocky islands, a further pavilion joined by covered walkways and with two birds in flight above between gadrooned rims (extended firing crack to base and above one handle), circa 1730
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A ST. CLOUD SEAU À VERRE with gargoyle-mask handles, painted in a famille verte palette with Orientals holding parasols and fans at discussion beside a table, the reverse with three figures in a boat beside huts on wooded rocky islands, a further pavilion joined by covered walkways and with two birds in flight above between gadrooned rims (extended firing crack to base and above one handle), circa 1730
11cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. George Savage, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain, pl. 7