5A GILT-SILVER MOUNTED VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS WATER JUG AND COVER (POT À EAU)

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5A GILT-SILVER MOUNTED VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS WATER JUG AND COVER (POT À EAU)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753, PAINTER'S K FOR DODIN, INCISED 4

Of baluster form, painted en camaïeu rose with putti in clouds, the cover with a dove in flight, a berried laurel branch in its beak, each reserved on the blue ground within chased gilt cartouches of grasses and flowers, minimal wear to gilding
5in. (12.7cm.) high

拍品专文

Charles-Nicholas Dodin was active at Vincennes and Sèvres 1754-1802. The present piece must, therefore, be one of his very first efforts at figure painting. A Dejeuner en Porte-Huilier with similar decoration by Dodin and also dated 1753 was sold at Christie's New York, October 1995, Lot 71.