A SAINT-CLOUD MELON-FORM POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER

CIRCA 1740

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A SAINT-CLOUD MELON-FORM POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER
Circa 1740
The conforming domed cover and oviform body moulded with panels, each alternately applied with trailing flowering branches or painted with scattered insects and birds, the apetures on the cover painted as stylized flowers with black-outlined petals centering each hole
6 1/8in. (15.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Christine Lahaussois, Porcelaines de Saint-Cloud, musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1997, nos 137, 138 for white examples, one of similar form, the other with similar flowers; Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIII^e siècle, Paris, 1996, p. 310 for a pot-pourri, cover and fixed stand applied with similar flowers, its apetures similarly painted as stylized blossoms; and Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, "The Manufacture and Sale of Soft-Paste Porcelain in Paris in the Eighteenth Century", Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, ca. 1690-1766, New Haven, 1999, pp. 83-96 for a history of the factory and its position among other contemporary French rivals.

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