CIRCA 1754, BLUE INTERLACED L'S, PAINTER'S MARK FOR SIOUX, L'AÎNÉ, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK Q, THE BASIN INCISED 6

A similarly decorated ewer and basin of the same form and painted by the same hand is in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, a gift of J.P. Morgan. For a similarly decorated Vincennes wall cistern, cover and basin painted with flower garlands suspended from feuille-de-choux in a similar manner to those on the present lot, see Svend Eriksen, The David Collection, French Porcelain, Copenhagen, 1980, fig. 43-44 and illustrated on the cover.

Jean-Charles Sioux, l'aîné, is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of monochrome flowers, 1752-1792.