TWO VINCENNES PIERCED LOBED OVAL BASKETS painted with scattered bouquets, flower-sprays and insects, the exterior with overlapping bleu celeste and reeded gilt bands, the top two each joined by a moulded gilt ribbon, the lower part with bleu celeste basketweave (one with restored rim chip at one end, the other with rim chip to interior near one end), one with blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter C for 1755 and with painter's mark B, the other with indistinct mark and incised divided circle

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TWO VINCENNES PIERCED LOBED OVAL BASKETS painted with scattered bouquets, flower-sprays and insects, the exterior with overlapping bleu celeste and reeded gilt bands, the top two each joined by a moulded gilt ribbon, the lower part with bleu celeste basketweave (one with restored rim chip at one end, the other with rim chip to interior near one end), one with blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter C for 1755 and with painter's mark B, the other with indistinct mark and incised divided circle
28 and 28.5cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

The corbeille à ozier was produced in two sizes of which these are the second size; according to the sales registers for the period 1 July 1757 - 1 January 1758 four corbeilles à ozier 2^e bleu céleste at 192 livres each were delivered to Lazare Duvaux; it is possible that these are the present examples

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