Lot 220
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A VINCENNES CYLINDRICAL MUG (POT A BOIRE)

1755-6, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C

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A VINCENNES CYLINDRICAL MUG (POT A BOIRE)
1755-6, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C
The handle with leaf terminals, gilt to the edge, painted with scattered flower-sprays below a gilt dentil rim, further flower-sprays to the interior, the footrim with a gilt line (a few minute flakes to gilding on handle)
4 1/8 in. (10.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This form was recorded in May 1753, four models are listed in January 1755 as part of the delivery 'pour le turc' (see footnote to lot 204). See Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Exhibition catalogue, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres (Paris, 1977), p. 69.

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