ARTS OF FRANCE FRIDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2001 AT 2PM PRECISELY (LOTS 201-426) THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'A LA REINE' ET SOUCOUPE)

CIRCA 1752, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'A LA REINE' ET SOUCOUPE)
Circa 1752, blue interlaced L's marks
The flaring cylindrical cup with scroll handle, gilt and chased with an exotic bird in a landscape vignette reserved within a lobed cartouche of foliate scrolls on the mottled blue ground with scattered gilding in imitation of lapis lazuli, the saucer basin with a similar gilt ciselé vignette, gilt dentil rims

Provenance

With Nicolier, Paris
Ambassador Henry Norweb
With Armin B. Allen, London, January 1989

Lot Essay

See Antoinette Fäy-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, les origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, pp. 108-109 for a discussion of the model and the names by which it appears in the factory records, varying by shape of handle and size.

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