1753-4, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK BESIDE DATE LETTER A

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A VINCENNES BLUE LAPIS CIRCULAR SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER (POT A SUCRE A LA REINE)
1753-4, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK BESIDE DATE LETTER A
Gilt with vignettes of birds in flight and holding leafy twigs, within shaped oval cartouches gilt with flowers and trellis, the slightly domed cover with a fruit and leaf finial flanked by similar cartouches, gilt dentil rims
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous, Etude Loiseau-Schmitz, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 21 February 1988, lot 111.

Literature

Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris, 1991), p. 178, no. 190.

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Lot Essay

The present sugar bowl and cover is most likely the example sold to Lazare Duvaux on 31 October 1753 and is recorded in the sales ledgers in the Sèvres archives as: 1 pot a sucre Lapis et or ois.(eaux) volans 60 (livres) (Vy 1 fol. 28).

The only comparable sugar bowl and cover recorded in the Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux (entry 1646) on 30th December 1753 to Mme. Hébert, des Menus (Plaisirs): Deux taffes de Vincennes lapis, à oifeaux, 72 l. -- Un pot à fucre afforti, 60 l..

Marie-Christine-Françoise Dumouriez de Saint-Léon, married Antoine-Antoine Hébert, écuyer, trésorier général de l'Argenterie, Menus-Plaisirs et affaires de la Chambre du Roi.

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