Live Auction 8040Monsieur and Madame François-A Lifetime of Collecting
A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS FLOWER-VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS UNIE)
Lot 122

A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS FLOWER-VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS UNIE)

1754-55, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B AND PAINTER'S MARK 2

Closed9 June 2011

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GBP 11,250

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS FLOWER-VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS UNIE)
1754-55, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B AND PAINTER'S MARK 2
The flared shaped oval bowl moulded with leaf handles painted with fishermen on an island before a building and bridge within a mirror-shaped cartouche gilt with leaves and branches with birds, a butterfly and a vase on a plinth, the reverse with three birds in flight within a similar cartouche gilt with leaves and flowers, slight wear and flaking to gilt rim, footrim chip, hairline crack to footrim at back
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide

Specialist note

See John Whitehead, 'Le Cuvettes à Fleurs unies en Porcelaine de Vincennes-Sèvres', Sèvres, Revue de la Société des Amis du Musée National de Céramique, no. 7, 1998, p. 43, where he notes that there are two Curvettes à fleurs unies decorated in lapis paysage in 1755. Of these two examples, both purchases are recorded on 29 December 1755, one to Bazin and one to Machard, each for 240 livres.
The painter's mark on the present flower vase remains unidentified, see David Peter's, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. I, p. 94 where the author records this mark as used in circa 1754 by a painter of birds.