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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN HEXAGONAL VASE (VASE A RELIEF TURC)
Lot 20

A VINCENNES PORCELAIN HEXAGONAL VASE (VASE A RELIEF TURC)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER A FOR 1753

Closed24 October 2012

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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN HEXAGONAL VASE (VASE A RELIEF TURC)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER A FOR 1753
Of lobed form, each panel edged in gilt and applied with flowering vine above a gadroon, every other gadroon gilt and chased with a flower spray
6½ in. (16.4 cm.) high

Collection Ludwig Darmstädter, no. 4 (collection label); sold Rudolph Lepkes Kunst-Auctions Haus, Berlin, 24-26 March 1924, lot 516 (750 DM).
By descent to a private collector.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 April 1994, lot 74.

Specialist note

Also known as a 'vase d'ornement,' the form was conceived with a fluted cover applied with spiraling flowers. It takes its name from a commission of 1753-1755 listed simply as "pour le Turc". See T. Préaud and A. d'Albis, La porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, cat. no. 54.