Details
Of typical form with pierced and scrolled sides picked out in gilt above molded corbeille base, the bleu céleste ground centering a reserve finely painted with a military trophy entwined with flowers and foliage within a gilt ciselé scroll surround and trailing flowers
1178 in. (30.2 cm.) wide
Provenance
Sir Chester Beatty Collection, Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1955, lot 119.
The Evill/Frost Collection, Part III, Sotheby's, London, 16 June 2011, lot 241.
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Charles Buteaux l'aîné, later père, is recorded as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers at the manufactory from 1756-1782.

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