Gobelet à lait de Chopine
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1754
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Measurements
10.0 cm (D)4.0 cm (H)
Place of origin
Vincennes
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Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1529552.3
Summary
Cover, a Vincennes cover for a two-handled cup and stand, gobelet à lait de Chopine, deuxième grandeur, with a bleu lapis ground, the early mottled uneven blue, with s reserves of gilt birds on the wing within elaborate garlands of leaves and flowers, marked with interlaced l’s enclosing the date letter ‘A’ for 1754 on the cup, but outside on the saucer, both in blue enamel.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Jacob Astley, 6th Baronet Astley (1797-1859) of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland (NT) and Melton Constable, Norfolk, Purchased by Ralph Dutton at Christie’s, London, The Property of a Lady, October 28, 1963, Lot 148, ‘A Vincennes, two-handled cup, cover and stand, … interlaced L mark and A for 1753’ From the collection of Lord Hastings. (fol. 197).
Marks and inscriptions
Vincennes 1753
Makers and roles
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory, maker previously catalogued as by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , maker