A pair of Vincennes fond bleu flower-tubs (caisses à fleurs carreés, premième grandeur)
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A pair of Vincennes fond bleu flower-tubs (caisses à fleurs carreés, premième grandeur)

BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS, ONE ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C FOR 1755, BOTH WITH PAINTER'S MARK G

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A pair of Vincennes fond bleu flower-tubs (caisses à fleurs carreés, premième grandeur)
Blue interlaced L marks, one enclosing date letter C for 1755, both with painter's mark G
Each painted with a loose bouquet of flowers within elaborate gilt rococo-scroll-bordered shaped cartouches reserved on a dark-blue and gilt caillouté ground, the upper corners each with an oviform finial with gilt dentil ornament, standing on four block feet, one tub broken through and restored, restoration to finials, some restoration of chipping to feet
7in. (17.8cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

See Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris, 1991), p. 181, no. 197 for a caisse carrée of similar form, the above lot would appear to be among the earliest examples of this form.

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