1740-1750, SAINT-CLOUD OR VILLEROY

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A FRENCH SOFTE-PASTE PRUNUS-MOLDED POT A TOILETTE AND COVER
1740-1750, Saint-Cloud or Villeroy
Cylindrical, the cover with inverted cone finial, each sprigged with three sprays of flowing branches of prunus; together with a Saint-Cloud white coffee-cup of similar date sprigged with two sprays of flowering branches and with two birds in flight
5½ in. (14 cm.) high, the pot and cover; 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, the cup (3)

Lot Essay

See Christine Lahaussois, Porcelaines de Saint-Cloud, La Collection du Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1997, p. 86, cat. no. 130 for a pair of silver-mounted similar jars and covers; also Bertrand Randot, Ed., Discovering the Secrets of Softe-Paste porcelain and the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, New Haven, 1999, pp. 168-169, cat. no. 84, the same pot now described as Saint-Cloud or possibly Villeroy.

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