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Lot 585
A VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POMADE POT (POT A POMMADE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-54, PAINTER'S OR GILDER'S B. MARK, INCISED 3
Closed22 October 2010
Price Realised
USD 1,500
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Specialist note
The B. mark on the present piece is possibly for the unnamed flower painter active 1753-57 or for the gilder Jean-Pierre Boulanger, active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1754-85.
In deciphering the archival listings for this form, it is difficult to differenciate between a pot à pommade and a pot à pâte. Size may be the deciding factor, but equally decoration may play a role. See Antoinette Fäy-Hallée and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 1977, pp. 80 for a discussion of this issue. The present pot is more likely a pot à pommade that will have cost 3 lives, 10 sols.
In deciphering the archival listings for this form, it is difficult to differenciate between a pot à pommade and a pot à pâte. Size may be the deciding factor, but equally decoration may play a role. See Antoinette Fäy-Hallée and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 1977, pp. 80 for a discussion of this issue. The present pot is more likely a pot à pommade that will have cost 3 lives, 10 sols.