A pair of a Vincennes seaux a verre

CIRCA 1753, BOTH INCISED LP, ONE WITH PT TO FOOTRIM, THE OTHER WITH 3

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A pair of a Vincennes seaux a verre
Circa 1753, both incised LP, one with pt to footrim, the other with 3
With gilt C-scroll and foliage handles, painted in puce camaieu with rural trophies, two orange-tubs, a bee skep, a cauldron, a barrel and bellows in wooded landscape vignettes with buildings in the distance and foliage in the foregound between gilt line rims (one handle riveted and with small piece lacking)
4.1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

On 27th September 1753, Lazare Duvaux sold to S.A.S. Monseigneur le duc des Deux-Ponts (the way in which Carl Theodore, the Elector Palatine was generally referred to in France) six seaux verres de porcelaine de Vincennes, peints en camaieu pourpre, 301. He also sold, at the same price, 18 painted with landscapes to the same client in July 1753.

See the example sold in these Rooms, 30 June 1975, lot 63.

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