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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POMADE POT (POT A POMMADE)
- BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-54, PAINTER'S OR GILDER'S B. MARK, INCISED 3

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A VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POMADE POT (POT A POMMADE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-54, PAINTER'S OR GILDER'S B. MARK, INCISED 3
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    $600 - $800
This lot is offered without reserve

Sale Information

Sale 2350
500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
21 - 22 October 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POMADE POT (POT A POMMADE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-54, PAINTER'S OR GILDER'S B. MARK, INCISED 3
Painted front and back with flowers within a gilt foliate cartouche, gilt dentil rim
2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) high

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Provenance

Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge, no. 4.

Lot Notes

The B. mark on the present piece is possibly for the unnamed flower painter active 1753-57 or for the gilder Jean-Pierre Boulanger, active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1754-85.

In deciphering the archival listings for this form, it is difficult to differenciate between a pot à pommade and a pot à pâte. Size may be the deciding factor, but equally decoration may play a role. See Antoinette Fäy-Hallée and Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 1977, pp. 80 for a discussion of this issue. The present pot is more likely a pot à pommade that will have cost 3 lives, 10 sols.


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