Vincennes - Lot 202

Vincennes Assiette nommée assiette à berceaux with polychrome decoration in the center of a pair of ducks on a terrace with shrubs, the wing decorated in light relief with basketwork motifs and blue cameo decoration of leafy garlands enhanced with gilding. Marked : LL interlaced, mark of the painter Louis-Denis Armand l'ainé. 18th century, circa 1753. D. 25.5 cm. A very small chip. On August 11, 1753, the Marquis de Courteille (1696-1767), commissaire du Roi at the Manufacture de Vincennes, purchased 15 plates with Berceaux, oiseaux et fleurs Guirlandes at 36 livres each. He completed this purchase on December 7, 1753 with four plates of the same shape and decoration (Arch. Sèvres, Vy1 f° 15). Charles François Grillard de La Boissière, a shareholder in the Vincennes factory, also purchased 15 plates on September 4, 1753 (Vy1, f° 20). Several plates are listed today, some with a garland of flowers in blue, others in green. One plate with a green garland is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (see Tamara Préaud, Antoine d'Albis, La porcelaine de Vincennes, 1991, p. 151, no. 117). Two others are in the Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie in Boulogne-sur-Mer (see Tamara Préaud, Antoinette Hallé, Porcelaine de Vincennes, les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalog, Paris, 1977, p. 31; n° 30-31). Two plates were sold at Chateaudun, étude Trapenat, April 19, 2009, lots 91-92 and two others with green garlands at Christie's, London, May 12, 2010, lot 202; another from the Adrian Sassoon collection is on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.