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Lot 183*

A Vincennes pierced cheese dish (Fromager), dated 1756

6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Vincennes pierced cheese dish (Fromager), dated 1756

Of the second size, decorated with flowers between blue line borders, the sides pierced and heightened in gilding, 15.5cm long, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter c and unidentified painter's mark in blue

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Provenance:
With Gerald Sattin, London (purchased 9 September 1988);
Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private Collection

Moulds for this model can be found in the inventory of the manufactory as early as 1752, while drawings of amended designs appeared one or two years later. The shape came in two sizes, of which the present lot is the bigger of the two. Geoffrey de Bellaigue mentions that cheese dishes of the first and second size painted with flowers, such as the present lot, cost 48 and 42 livres respectively; see G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. II (2009), pp. 570f, no. 136, for a full discussion and two fromager with a bleu-céleste ground. Another bleu céleste example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and illustrated in Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, no. 196, pp. 180-181.

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