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CIRCA 1767, BOTH WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O, ONE WITH PAINTER’S MARK FOR JOFFROY, INCISED WITH A LINE BISECTING AN OVAL, THE OTHER WITH PAINTER’S MARK FOR NOEL, AN INCISED TRIANGLE TO ONE FOOT
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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN FLOWER VASES (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'COURTEILLE', 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1767, BOTH WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O, ONE WITH PAINTER’S MARK FOR JOFFROY, INCISED WITH A LINE BISECTING AN OVAL, THE OTHER WITH PAINTER’S MARK FOR NOEL, AN INCISED TRIANGLE TO ONE FOOT
Painted with swags of flowers suspended from bows
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) long
CIRCA 1767, BOTH WITH BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O, ONE WITH PAINTER’S MARK FOR JOFFROY, INCISED WITH A LINE BISECTING AN OVAL, THE OTHER WITH PAINTER’S MARK FOR NOEL, AN INCISED TRIANGLE TO ONE FOOT
Painted with swags of flowers suspended from bows
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) long
Provenance
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.
Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 (ERR no. R4367).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the ‘Lager Pater’ salt mines, Alt Aussee.
Transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1208).
Repatriated to France, 2 March 1946.
With Lévy-Lacaze, Paris, October 1974.
Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 (ERR no. R4367).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the ‘Lager Pater’ salt mines, Alt Aussee.
Transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1208).
Repatriated to France, 2 March 1946.
With Lévy-Lacaze, Paris, October 1974.
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