MID 19TH CENTURY, BLUE J.P. MARKS, PROBABLY PAINTED BY DARTE FRERES

The present model was created by Jacob Petit for L'Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie of 1834.

See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, "Jacob Petit, Le plus romantique des porcelainiers parisiens", L'Estampille/Objet d'art, No 311, March 1997, p. 51 for the original design as engraved by Stéphane Flachat for L'Industrie in 1834; also Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelain de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe Siècles, 1995, p. 309, fig. 292; and anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 20 April 2006, lot 414 for a single example with its cover.