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A VINCENNES OR EARLY SEVRES QUATREFOIL PIERCED BASKET (CORBEILLE LIZONNEE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

1756-7, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D

细节

A VINCENNES OR EARLY SEVRES QUATREFOIL PIERCED BASKET (CORBEILLE LIZONNEE, 2^E^M^E GRANDEUR)
1756-7, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D
Of flared form, moulded and pieced with interlocking and entwined ribbons above a basket-weave pattern lower part, enriched in puce and gilt
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) wide

来源

Possibly one of the four baskets delivered through Lazare Duvaux to Louis XV's daughters, december 1757.
Anonymous, Etude Delorme, Drouot, Paris, 1 July 1992, lot 70.
With Vandermeersch, Paris.

出版

'Les Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres', Exhibition Catalogue (Paris, 1977), p. 44, no. 69.

展览

Paris, Grand Palais, Les Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, no. 69.

注意事项

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荣誉呈献

Dominic Simpson

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拍品专文

The present basket is possibly one of four baskets ordered by Louis XV for his daughters and recorded in the Sèvres sales ledger's in the Sèvres archives (Vy 2 fol. 52 vo): 4 idem (corbeilles) idem (a ozier) 2e idem (grandeur ou BC?) 192 (livre each) 768 (livres in total).

Further mention is in the Livre Journal de Lazare Duvaux in December 1757: 3007. -- Mme ADELAÏDE : (...) -- Une corbeille a jour, rouge & or, 192 l./3008. -- Mme VICTOIRE : (...) -- Une corbeille a jour, rouge & or, 192 l./3009. -- Mme SOPHIE : (...) -- Une corbeille à jour, rouge & or, 192 l./3010. -- Mme LOUISE : (...) -- Une corbeille à jour, rouge & or, 192 l.

Three similar baskets and one larger are housed at the Casino del Cavaliere in the Boboli Gardens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, see Svend Eriksen, Le porcellane francesi a Palazzo Pitti (Florence, 1973), p. 52, no. 19, which is also recorded in Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800 (London, 1987), p. 304, no. 115.