CIRCA 1747-52, BOTH WITH INCISED MARKS

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A VINCENNES CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET CALABRE ET SOUCOUPE)
CIRCA 1747-52, BOTH WITH INCISED MARKS
The cup with flared rim on a high foot with moulded angular handle, painted in the Meissen style with a continuous river landscape with a canopied boat and a bridge leading to towers above a puce line, the handle enriched in puce, the trembleuse saucer with raised central ring painted to the centre with Holzschnitt Blumen and the border with two landscape vignettes with figures, terraces and buildings, both with brown line rims (slight chip to rim of cup and the saucer with slight chip to raised central section, slight rubbing to rims)

Provenance

Possibly the example sold to Lazare Duvaux, 23 May 1753.
Anonymous, Etude Artcurial, Hôtel Dassault, Paris, 20 June 2006, lot 11.

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Lot Essay

The sales ledgers in the Sèvres archives record the sale of a cup and saucer, perhaps the present example (Vy1 fol. 8v°):

livré à Monsieur Duvaux du 23 Mai 1753 un gobelet d'après le Saxe, bord brun 1 soucoupe 12 (livres)

A cup of the same form and with the same shaped handle described as à console, decorated in blue, is illustrated by Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris 1991), pp. 124-125, no. 46.

Extracts from the Sèvres Archives are reproduced courtesy of the Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique Archives.

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