A Vincennes bleu lapis cylindrical tankard (pot à boire)

1753, UNDERGLAZE BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING OVERGLAZE DATE LETTER A

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A Vincennes bleu lapis cylindrical tankard (pot à boire)
1753, underglaze blue interlaced L mark enclosing overglaze date letter A
The moulded loop handle with gilt foliage terminals, each side richly gilt with two birds, three with olive branches in their beaks within heart-shaped cartouches gilt with trailing flowers on a trellis between gilt dentil rims (minute chip to top rim near handle, some very slight rubbing to gilt dentil rims)
4½in. (11.5cm.) high

Provenance

From the Collection of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, sale Sotheby's, 6 October 1995, lot 799.

Lot Essay

Cf. the covered example in the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, see Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (1991), p. 160, no. 138 and the covered example in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence, see Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, op. cit. (1987), p. 277, no. 92 and French Porcelain in Palazzo Pitti (n.d.), p. 35, no. 4.

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