Lot 139
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A CONTINENTAL CHEESE STRAINER

CIRCA 1760, POSSIBLY HCHST

Details
A CONTINENTAL CHEESE STRAINER
Circa 1760, possibly Hchst
In the Vincennes style, the pierced circular basin with Cupid's bow handles and raised on three toupie feet, painted in puce with scattered flowers beneath a puce line rim
6in. (15.2cm.) wide, overall

Lot Essay

See Antoinette Fa-Hall and Tamara Praud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Svres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, no. 93 for the Vincennes prototype on which the present example is based.