Lot 108
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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR ECUELLE AND COVER (ECUELLE ROND)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF NIEL RIMINGTON (1928-2009) OF FONTHILL OLD ABBEY ESTATE, WILTSHIRE
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR ECUELLE AND COVER (ECUELLE ROND)

1755-56, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK OF A STYLISED BIRD AND DOT, BLUE DOT TO FOOTRIM OF ECUELLE

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR ECUELLE AND COVER (ECUELLE ROND)
1755-56, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK OF A STYLISED BIRD AND DOT, BLUE DOT TO FOOTRIM OF ECUELLE
With entwined branch handles, the mottled ground reserved on each side with a panel painted with loose bouquets of flowers, within gilt rococo scroll cartouches with palm fronds, flowering branches and diaper-pattern panels, the domed cover similarly decorated below a fruiting laurel branch finial, gilt dentil rims (small chip to one handle, very slight wear to gilt rims, further minute wear)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

For a discussion of a similar unidentified painter's mark of a bird which appears to have been used by a painter of flowers from circa 1753 to circa 1757, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (Little Berkhamsted, 2005), p. 99.

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