A VINCENNES OVAL FLOWER POT (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'VERDUN')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C FOR 1755-1766, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLIARD, INCISED M (SPERM)

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A VINCENNES OVAL FLOWER POT (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'VERDUN')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter C for 1755-1766, painter's mark for Vielliard, incised m (sperm)
Painted in colours in the style of Boucher with vignettes of children as amorous couples in gardens, the scroll handles enriched in gilt and suspending garlands of flowers, in a gilt-dentil rim
13in. (33.6cm.) long
Vielliard, Andr-Vincent

Provenance

The 6th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore; Sotheby & Co., on the premises, 24 May 1977, lot 2113 (#1,600 to Winifred Williams)

Literature

Rosalind Savill, Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Svres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, p. 61, footnote 2G

Exhibited

London, Winifred Williams, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain, 3-20 July 1978, no. 36

Lot Essay

The scene on the front of the present vase is derived from La Pesche, engraved by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince after Franois Boucher. For a different use of the same graphic source, see lot 45 of the present sale.

The model of a cuvette fleurs 'Verdun' first appears in the factory records for 1755, the year the present example was made. The form was produced in three sizes, of which the present vase is an example of the largest.

Andr-Vincent Vielliard, recorded at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-90

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