A VINCENNES GREEN-GROUND TWO-HANDLED SMALL CUP AND SAUCER (tasse à toilette et soucoupe)
Circa 1755
Interlaced Ls in blue enamel, the cup with incised C S, the saucer with 2
The cup 5.0 cm high, the saucer 9.7 cm diam.
A green ground colour is rare in the Vincennes period but pieces bearing date letter ‘A’ for 1754 are known and eight pieces with a green ground are listed in the general stock list as early as 1752 (Eriksen & Bellaigue 1987, p. 50). The painting of the birds in flight are typical of 1754-56.
Condition:
Good, no restoration
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 7 June 2011, lot 95
Exhibited:
‘Early French Soft Paste Porcelain’, E&H Manners February 2021, no 40
SOLD