CIRCA 1768, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER P, PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE, INCISED CYPHER MARK

The present vase may have formed a part of a three vase garniture with the following lot. The design has been attributed to Jean-Claude Duplessis, based on similarities in the outline to his drawing of a seau 'à liquers'. It was known in the 18th century by the name caisse or cuvette Courteille, after Jacques-Dominique de Courteille, the King's representative from 1751, who was appointed commissaire du roi at the manufactory in 1752, a post which he held until his death in 1767. The form was made in the three sizes, with examples of the first size dating from 1753 and those of the second and third sizes from 1759. See G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen, London, 2009, vol. I, pp. 96-99, no. 2, for a full discussion of the shape together with an illustration of the plaster model preserved at Sèvres (fig. 2.3C).
François-Joseph Aloncle was a painter of birds, animals and landscapes active at Sèvres from 1758 to 1781.