Lot 89: Two Vincennes two-handled vases (vases Duplessis a fleurs)

CIRCA 1752, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DOT TO ONE
Of baluster form with entwined gilt branch handles, each side of both gilt with bouquets of flowers, one painted with insects and flower-sprays, the foliage-moulded upper rims and footrims enriched in gilding, on shaped rockwork feet applied with foliage issuing meandering flowering stems extending up the body and about the handles (one with handle replaced, two stems with replacement sections, other with section broken from rim and repaired, the base drilled and with chip, both with very slight wear to gilt handles and chipping to flowers, foliage and stems)
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) and 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high (2)

Anon., sale Sotheby's London, 21st May 1968, lot 88.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

For a garniture of three similar vases, see Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris, 1991), p. 131, no. 63, and for a white example with a cover see Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, Des origines à nos jours (Fribourg, 1978), p. 128, no. 15.

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