English and European Ceramics and Glass - 6th March 2012

Lot 411

A rare Vincennes small bottle or glass cooler c.1750-52

Estimate £2,500 - £3,500 | Hammer £10000

+ Buyers Premium

Description

A rare Vincennes small bottle or glass cooler c.1750-52, painted in the Meissen style in puce camaïeu with figures in boats and on a jetty in a riverside landscape, within a simple gilt cartouche, the reverse with a courting couple visiting a Classical shrine, blue interlaced LL and dot mark, 11cm high. Cf. Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, p.101, no.38 for a similar example in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.