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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER (POT A SUCRE 'DE LA REINE' ET SA COUVERCLE, 2... GRANDEUR)

DARK BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B FOR 1754-1755, INCISED 1, PAINTER'S MARK OF TWO DOTS AT THE FOOTRIM

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER (POT A SUCRE 'DE LA REINE' ET SA COUVERCLE, 2^.^.^. GRANDEUR)
Dark blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter B for 1754-1755, incised 1, painter's mark of two dots at the footrim
Of tapering cylindrical form, painted with birds in flight, some with berried branches in their beaks, reserved on the mottled dark blue ground within gilt ciselé cartouches of grasses and flower sprays, the slightly domed cover with ranunculus finial centering a similar cartouche of three birds reserved within a gilt ciselé wreath, gilt dentil rims
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high; 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

The cover of the present example is a variation on that normally found atop a flaring cylindrical sugar box. That the two are original to each other should not be doubted, given the identical ground color and hand of the bird painter, the similarity in palette and the idiocincratic way of painting the birds' feathers.

The present sugar-box is in the smaller of the two sizes inwhich it was produced. 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, p. 82, no. 185.

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