A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND TANKARD AND COVER (TASSE 'LITRON' COUVERT OR 'POT A BOIRE')
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND TANKARD AND COVER (TASSE 'LITRON' COUVERT OR 'POT A BOIRE')
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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND TANKARD AND COVER (TASSE 'LITRON' COUVERT OR 'POT A BOIRE')

CIRCA 1754, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, INCISED 4

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS-GROUND TANKARD AND COVER (TASSE 'LITRON' COUVERT OR 'POT A BOIRE')
CIRCA 1754, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, INCISED 4
Each side painted with a bouquet of flowers within a heart-shaped cartouche edged with gilt grasses, flowers and foliage, within gilt dentil rims (glazed firing crack to handle, very slight flaking to gilt rims)
13.6 cm. (5 3/8 in.) high
Provenance
The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; sale, Part I, Christie's, New York, 21-22 March 1991, lot 178.
With Robert Williams, Eastbourne, from whom it was acquired on 11 June 1991.
Exhibited
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 430 a-b.

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Lot Essay

For an example of this rare tankard shape in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence see Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, London, 1987, p. 277, no. 92; another, decorated in gilding with birds within heart-shaped cartouches is in the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and illustrated by Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, p. 160, no. 138. A bleu lapis-ground example formerly in the Collection of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, decorated with birds in gilding but without a cover, was sold at Christie's in New York on 7 June 2012, lot 144. This combination of ground colour and flower decoration on this form would appear to be comparatively rare.

The unidentified painter's mark on this tankard is possibly intended to be the heraldic symbol for wood, or perhaps the sign for ermine. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, p. 96, where the author notes that the period of occurrence of the mark coincides with Jean-Jacques Sioux's time working at the factory.

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