A GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU LAPIS ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE RONDE TOURNEE ET PLATEAU RONDE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1752-1753, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, THE GILT-BRONZE HANDLE OF LATER DATE

Details

Each piece painted with colorful birds in flight, within elaborate gilt ciselé shaped cartouches of flowering branches, grasses and scrolling trellis, the cover with a later gilt-bronze replacement handle, the stand with a lobed rim, gilt dentil rims
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) wide, the stand
Provenance

Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 4 April 1972, lot 194.


Lot Essay

This form of écuelle is first mentioned in the factory records (in four sizes) in 1752, with the title appearing in the sales records the following year, 1753. Madame de Pompadour is known to have purchased two bleu lapis ecuelles of the second size, also with polychrome birds from Lazare Duvaux in March of 1754 (see R. Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Norwich, 2021, vol. II, pp. 1144, entries 1711 and 1722). Compare the similar example in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, museum no. 89.DE.44, illustrated by R. Savill, op. cit., vol. I, p. 369. A further bleu lapis example, circa 1754 and decorated with similar birds, was sold form the collection of the Sixth Earl of Strafford at Christie's, London, 16 November 2021, lot 546; an example dating circa 1755-1756 was sold by Christie's, London, 6 December 2004, lot 348.