Lot 184
184
A Vincennes flared cup (gobelet á la Reine)
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A Vincennes flared cup (gobelet á la Reine)

CIRCA 1752-53, ELABORATE BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS

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A Vincennes flared cup (gobelet á la Reine)
Circa 1752-53, elaborate blue interlaced L marks
Painted with birds below an insect among branches on a grassy mound within a gilt scroll mirror-shaped cartouche, reserved on a blue gilt marbled ground, with gilt dentil foot and gilt line rim (some minor rim chips and a crack to rim, light rubbing to gilding)
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Lot Essay

A cup and saucer similar in the British Museum is illustrated by Eileen Dawson, A Catalogue of French Porcelain in the British Museum (London 1994), pp. 82-3, no. 77, and col. pl. 11 and Tamara Prèaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris 1991), p. 160, no. 137, and in colour p. 41.

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