Online Auction 20673The Collector: English & European Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A VINCENNES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' BOTTLE COOLER AND PIERCED DIVIDER (SEAU A LIQUEUR OVALE)
Lot 16The Augustus Collection of Important French and Continental Porcelain, Part I

A VINCENNES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' BOTTLE COOLER AND PIERCED DIVIDER (SEAU A LIQUEUR OVALE)

CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B, PAINTER'S MARK PROBABLY FOR J.-J. SIOUX LE JEUNE

Closed5 April 2022

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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' BOTTLE COOLER AND PIERCED DIVIDER (SEAU A LIQUEUR OVALE)
CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B, PAINTER'S MARK PROBABLY FOR J.-J. SIOUX LE JEUNE
Of typical form with a removable pierced divider, decorated with a bleu céleste ground and finely painted front and back with a bouquet of fruit and flowers within a reserve encircled by gilt ciselé grasses and trailing flowers
12 1⁄4 in. (31.2 cm.) wide

With Lazare Duvaux, Paris, 1755.
Acquired from John Whitehead, London, 2013.

Specialist note

This shape of the present cooler was designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis père for the Louis XV service. Only three seaux à liqueur ovale bleu céleste fleurs were sold by the Vincennes Factory in 1755, and all three were delivered to the marchand mercier Lazare Duvaux: two between 1 June and 1 October 1755, and one between 1 October and 31 December 1755, each at a price of 240 livres.

Jean-Jacques Sioux le jeune is recorded as a painter of flowers at the manufactory from 1752 to 1760.

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