A VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE SEAU A LIQUEUR, with gilt-edged double scroll and foliage handles, the sides painted with loose bouquets of fruit and flowers within shaped gilt trellis grass, flower and vine cartouches, with birds, a snail and a caterpillar beneath a shaped gilt dentil rim, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter B for 1754, painter's mark a leaf and incised marks Co, 1754 | Christie's

Lot 333

333

A VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE SEAU A LIQUEUR, with gilt-edged double scroll and foliage handles, the sides painted with loose bouquets of fruit and flowers within shaped gilt trellis grass, flower and vine cartouches, with birds, a snail and a caterpillar beneath a shaped gilt dentil rim, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter B for 1754, painter's mark a leaf and incised marks Co, 1754

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A VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE SEAU A LIQUEUR, with gilt-edged double scroll and foliage handles, the sides painted with loose bouquets of fruit and flowers within shaped gilt trellis grass, flower and vine cartouches, with birds, a snail and a caterpillar beneath a shaped gilt dentil rim, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter B for 1754, painter's mark a leaf and incised marks Co, 1754
31.5 cm wide

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Lot Essay

C.f C. C. Dauterman, The Wrightman Collection, Vol. IV no. 96 for an illustrated example but of slightly later date and with less elaborate gilding.

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