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, fig. 68 for another of similar form gilt with rocaille scrolls. Factory records note that egg cups painted with flowers such as the present example were sold for 6 livres, those with a colored ground for 30 livres.