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A similar tray in the Sèvres Museum has Cupids en camaïeu rose in identically shaped panels and similarly gilt cartouches. See Préaud and Fäy-Hallé, fig. 130.
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A VINCENNES BLEU CÉLESTE SHAPED-OVAL DISH (PLATEAU DE DÉJEUNER EN PORTE-HUILIER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER C FOR 1755 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR HOURY
The mottled bleu céleste ground with four shaped panels of fruit and flowers within richly ciselé flower, rush and fern cartouches, gilt dentil rim--10¾in. (28.5cm.) wide
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER C FOR 1755 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR HOURY
The mottled bleu céleste ground with four shaped panels of fruit and flowers within richly ciselé flower, rush and fern cartouches, gilt dentil rim--10¾in. (28.5cm.) wide