Applied with die-stamped gold ornaments of military trophies, classical landscape vignettes, children, birds and flowers. The gilt metal mounts are finely tooled with scrolls and birds. This along with the two other known examples of the form, are the most substantial and richly decorated pieces in this rare technique.[i]

From the collection of Mme Thalman, published in Alfassa and Guerin in 1931. Present whereabouts unknown[ii]

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Condition:
Some crazing to the glaze surface, which probably occurred during the firing on of the paillons, old restoration to rim under mount.

Provenance:

With Georges Lévy-Lacaze, Paris (applied paper label);
Private Collection, France;
Acquired in 2003 from Manuela Finaz de Villaine, Paris
The British American Tobacco Collection of Tobacco Containers and Accessories

Bonhams 6 December 2023, lot 34

References:

Alfassa and Guérin 1931

Paul Alfassa et Jacques Guérin, Porcelaines françaises du XVIIe au milieu du XIXème siècle, Paris 1931

Manners 2011
Errol Manners, ‘Gold Decoration on French, German, and Oriental Porcelain in the Early Eighteenth Century’, Journal of the French Porcelain Society, vol. IV, 2011

[i] Manners 2011. Fig. 11 & 12

[ii] Alfassa & Guerin 1931, pl. 18 when it was in the collection of Mme Thalman

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