BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-1754, INCISED SCRIPT LE

For a virtually identical example dated 1755-1756 and with a mark for the flower painter Houry, see The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; Christie's, New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 191. See also Linda Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J.P. Morgan Collection, Hartford, 2000, no. for a discussion of the shape, designed to hold two glass cruets. Examples similarly decorated with panels of flowers on a colored ground were priced at 24 or 27 livres.