Lot Essay
The complexity of the original design by Jean-Claude Duplessis, pre for a sugar spoon of 1752 was beyond the capacity of the manufacture and the piercing on Vincennes and Svres examples is much simpler than that originally conceived. Such spoons were produced with both circular and oval bowls. Two circular examples from a private collection are illustrated by Tamara Praud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, no. 151. A third is in the David Collection and illustrated by Svend Erikson in both his catalogue of that collection and in Svres Porcelain, Vincennes and Svres 1740-1800, London, 1985, p. 275, no. 90.