A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CYLINDRICAL TANKARD, COVER AND DEEP STAND (pot à boire, couvercle et soucoupe) painted with birds in flight holding twigs in their beaks or feet, within shaped cartouches edged with gilt reeds, trailing flowers and foliage, the ear-shaped handle with foliage terminals enriched in gilding and the domed cover with gilt strap finial, with gilt dentil rims (minute area of gilding loss to footrim of mug and rim of cover), the mug and stand with underglaze blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters A for 1753, three dots about the upper part of the marks and below the A and incised 4 to both pieces

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CYLINDRICAL TANKARD, COVER AND DEEP STAND (pot à boire, couvercle et soucoupe) painted with birds in flight holding twigs in their beaks or feet, within shaped cartouches edged with gilt reeds, trailing flowers and foliage, the ear-shaped handle with foliage terminals enriched in gilding and the domed cover with gilt strap finial, with gilt dentil rims (minute area of gilding loss to footrim of mug and rim of cover), the mug and stand with underglaze blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters A for 1753, three dots about the upper part of the marks and below the A and incised 4 to both pieces
6 1/4 ins. (16cm.) high
The stand 7 3/4 ins. (19.5cm.) diam.

Literature

D. Cooper ed., Great Family Collections, London, 1965, p. 238

Lot Essay

G. de Bellaigue and S. Eriksen illustrate an example of similar form, without the stand, in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 277, no. 92. See also T. Préaud and A. d'Albis in La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, p. 160, no. 138 for the example in the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, there described as 'probably a pot à boire'. It seems to be extremely rare to find this form complete with a stand

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