VINCENNES Lot n° 16

Bourdaloue shell-shaped oval chamber pot with polychrome decoration of large flowering stems, an insect on the front and a gold fillet on the rim. The handle is formed by a branch in relief on a mauve background enhanced with gold. Interlaced LL mark in stitch. 18th century (two chips restored to the upper rim and slight gold wear). Circa 1750. Height: 8.5 cm - Length: 21.5 cm Provenance : Maison DRAGESCO-CRAMOISAN, Paris. Related works : A very similar model, with a slightly different shape (polylobed rim), is preserved at the Musée National de Sèvres (inv. MNC 26472). Another appears in A. DAWSON, Eighteenth-century French Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, pp. 58-59, no. 42. The inventory of October 1752 mentions the delivery to the factory's sales outlet of sixteen limaçon chamber pots, mediocre gold filet flowers, 12 livres (each).