Lot 217
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A VINCENNES SHAPED OCTAGONAL DISH (PLAT A HORS-D'OEUVRE CARRE A CORDON)

1753-4, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A, PAINTER'S MARK O. FOR AN AS YET UNIDENTIFIED DECORATOR, INCISED 4

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A VINCENNES SHAPED OCTAGONAL DISH (PLAT A HORS-D'OEUVRE CARRE A CORDON)
1753-4, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A, PAINTER'S MARK O. FOR AN AS YET UNIDENTIFIED DECORATOR, INCISED 4
Painted with flower-sprays, the well moulded with narrow flutes, the border painted with further garlands of flowers and moulded with foliage below a shaped gilt-line rim, the footrim with a gilt band
11 in. (27.9 cm.) wide
Provenance
With Winifred Williams, July 1978.
Anonymous, Etude Ferri, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 6 May 1994, lot 68.
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Lot Essay

The moulds and an original design for a similar square dish by Duplessis are retained at Sèvres archive. See Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Exhibition catalogue, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres (Paris, 1977), p. 64. For two similar oval plats à hors d'oeuvres from the collection of the Duke of Parma in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, see Svend Eriksen, La porcellane francesi a Palazzo Pitti (Florence, 1973), p. 34, no. 3.

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