Lot Essay
The mark on the present pot, which combines the four-dot mark used prior to the advent of the letter system and the letter A for the first year in which the system came into use, indicates that the piece must have been made in the first half of 1753.
Another example with the same mark and also painted in colours with birds is in the collection of the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, inv. 11332 A & B. See Tamara Praud and Antoinette Fa-Hall, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Svres, Grand Palais, Paris, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, no. 107.
Another example with the same mark and also painted in colours with birds is in the collection of the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, inv. 11332 A & B. See Tamara Praud and Antoinette Fa-Hall, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Svres, Grand Palais, Paris, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, no. 107.