CIRCA 1752, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DOTS TO THE POT AND A CROSS TO THE SAUCER

Details

A VINCENNES GILT-WHITE TOILETTE POT AND A STAND (POT A TOILETTE ET UN PLATEAU)
Circa 1752, blue interlaced L's enclosing dots to the pot and a cross to the saucer
The domed cover and hemispheric pot with gilt branch handles, both further gilt with vignettes of grasses and flowers, the stand with central emplacement, gilt with three vignettes of a fox, a bear and a lion
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, the pot; 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diameter, the stand (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17-18 December 1982, lot 310.

Lot Essay

Cf. George Savage, 17th & 18th Century French Porcelain, p. 96; also Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain in the British Museum, p. 81, cat. no. 76.; and Ancienne Collection de Madame Bernheim; Christie's, Paris, 27 May 2004, lot 191. Examples are in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the musée nationale de la Céramique, Sèvres.

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