A PAIR OF VINCENNES CAMAIEU BLEU ORANGE TUBS (CAISSE 'CARREE')

CIRCA 1752, BLUE INTERLACED L'S AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR SIOUX L'AN, ONE INCISED (SPERM)F, THE OTHER INCISED B

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A PAIR OF VINCENNES CAMAIEU BLEU ORANGE TUBS (CAISSE 'CARREE')
Circa 1752, blue interlaced L's and painter's mark for Sioux l'an, one incised (sperm)f, the other incised B
Each square tub with spire finial painted in monochrome blue with canes entwined with flowering vines
5in. (15cm.) high
Sioux, Jean-Charles (2)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Sotheby's & Co., London, 6 July 1966, lot 113 (price? to Winifred Williams?)
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 52

Literature

Sir John Plumb, "The Intrigue of Svres", House and Garden, January 1986, p.44, illus.

Lot Essay

For this shape and its genesis, see Svend Eriksen, Svres Porcelain, Vincennes and Svres 1740-1800, London, 1985, p. 288, no. 101.

Jean-Charles Sioux was active at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of monochrome flowers, patterns, and feathered edges, 1752-1792. A similarly painted and marked pair of potpourri vases previously in the collection of the Duke of Kent are now in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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