Lot 211
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A VINCENNES BLUE LAPIS TWO-HANDLED OVAL BOTTLE COLER (SEAU A LIQUEUR OVALE)

1754-5, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING ENAMELLED DATE LETTER B, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MORIN, INCISED CA AND SQUARE INSIDE FOOTRIM

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A VINCENNES BLUE LAPIS TWO-HANDLED OVAL BOTTLE COLER (SEAU A LIQUEUR OVALE)
1754-5, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING ENAMELLED DATE LETTER B, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MORIN, INCISED ca AND SQUARE INSIDE FOOTRIM
Painted en camaïeu bleu with allegorical scenes of putti among clouds, one writing on a tablet, the other garlanding a globe with a laurel wreath, within mirror-shaped cartouches gilt with exotic birds among leafy branches, palm, pine and willow and scrolling foliage enclosing diaper-pattern sections, below a gilt dentil rim, applied with white and gilt leaf-moulded handles (cracked across and repaired, slight wear); and a modern replacement pierced divider
12¼ in. (31 cm.) wide
Provenance
Probably the example sold to Lazare Duvaux between 1 August 1756 - 1 January 1757 and then to M. de Boulogne on 27 December 1756.
Anonymous, Etude Loiseau-Schmitz, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 21 February 1988, lot 101.
Literature
Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris, 1991), p. 183, no. 204.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This early form of seau à liqueur was sold separately and was not included with a service. This example was delivered to Lazare Duvaux between 1 August 1756 and 1 January 1757 (Vy 2 fol. 17) and is recorded as '1 seau à liqueur ovale lapis enfants camaieu - 168 L.'. It is subsequently recorded in the Livre Journal de Lazare Duvaux no. 2677, sold on the 27 December 1756 to 'M. de Boulogne, Intendant: un feau à compartimens, gros bleu, & caraffes - 204 L.'.

M. de Boulogne (the spelling varies) was Intendant et contrôleur général, in 1719 he married Catherine de Beaufort, he died circa 1768-9.

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