A PAIR OF VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE VASES À OREILLES of inverted pear shape, the foliate neck curving over to form continuous leaf handles, painted with landscapes and river scenes within quatrefoil shaped cartouches with gilt rococo scroll and foliage borders with diaper and seeded panels, the feet with garlands of flowers and the rim and handles enriched with gilding (one with half of neck and handle broken and restored, chips to rim and one handle, the other with one handle broken and restored, chips to rim, both with rubbing to gilding), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter C for 1755, painter's mark y perhaps for Yvernal, incised L to one and 3 to the other, on 19th century gilt wood bases

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A PAIR OF VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE VASES À OREILLES of inverted pear shape, the foliate neck curving over to form continuous leaf handles, painted with landscapes and river scenes within quatrefoil shaped cartouches with gilt rococo scroll and foliage borders with diaper and seeded panels, the feet with garlands of flowers and the rim and handles enriched with gilding (one with half of neck and handle broken and restored, chips to rim and one handle, the other with one handle broken and restored, chips to rim, both with rubbing to gilding), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter C for 1755, painter's mark y perhaps for Yvernal, incised L to one and 3 to the other, on 19th century gilt wood bases
the vases 12.5cm. high
the vases and bases 16cm. high overall (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. a green ground pair of similar form sold Christie's Monaco, 3 December 1989, lot 51; for a full discussion of this shape see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. I, C241-3, pp. 135-147. These examples are the 5th size which was first produced in 1755

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