CIRCA 1756, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C, PAINTERS MARK FOR A.-V. VIEILLARD, INCISED MC

Details

A VINCENNES PORCELAIN FLOWER VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'ROUSSEL')
CIRCA 1756, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER C, PAINTERS MARK FOR A.-V. VIEILLARD, INCISED MC
Finely painted after François Boucher's 'Le Pésche', the reverse with a sailboat before a rustic home, the scroll handles suspending floral garlands, gilt dentil rims
12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.) long

Provenance

Mentmore, the collection of the late 6th Earl of Rosebery; Sotheby's on site, Mentmore, 24 May 1977, lot 2113.
Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain from a New England Collection; Christie’s, New York, 5 May 1999, lot 32.

Exhibited

London, Winifred Williams, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain, 3-20 July 1978, no. 36.

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Lot Essay

In a paper delivered to The French Porcelain Society in 2014, Cyrill Froissart convincingly reassigned the names of several vases found in the Sèvres factory records to other shapes. The form of the present cuvette or horizontal flower pot (jardinière), traditionally called a cuvette à fleurs ‘Verdun’, is now recognized as corresponding to a cuvette ‘Roussel’. For a detailed discussion of the detective work that led to this and two other re-attributions, see C. Froissart, Des Cuvettes Démasqués, The French Porcelain Society, London, 17 June 2014, pp. 1-39.
For an engraving by Renée Elisabeth Marlié Lépicié of Boucher's Le Pésche, see P. Jean-Richard, L'oeuvre gravée de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, pp. 332-3, no. 1385. André-Vincent Viellard père is recorded as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers at the manufactory from 1752-90.

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