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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN GILT-WHITE TOILETTE POT, COVER AND A STAND (POT A TOILETTE ET UN PLATEAU)

CIRCA 1752, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DOTS TO THE POT AND A CROSS TO THE SAUCER

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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN GILT-WHITE TOILETTE POT, COVER AND A STAND (POT A TOILETTE ET UN PLATEAU)
CIRCA 1752, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DOTS TO THE POT AND A CROSS TO THE SAUCER
The cup and cover gilt with vignettes of grasses and flowers, the socketed stand gilt with vignettes of a pig, fox, bear and lion
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, the pot; 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diameter, the stand (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17-18 December 1982, lot 310.
The Valentine Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2005, lot 83.

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Lot Essay

Similar examples with variant decoration are held in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the pot à toilette and cover gilt with vignettes of stag hunts, the stand with trophies amidst grasses [MAR.C.37 & A & B-1912]; the British Museum, gilt with chinoiserie vignettes and lacking a cover [1930,5-14,I]; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, also lacking a cover, with shell handles extending from the rim of the pot [1983-1855; 1983A-1855].

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