Details
Of typical form with a removable pierced divider, decorated with a bleu céleste ground and finely painted front and back with a bouquet of fruit and flowers within a reserve encircled by gilt ciselé grasses and trailing flowers
1214 in. (31.2 cm.) wide
Provenance
With Lazare Duvaux, Paris, 1755.
Acquired from John Whitehead, London, 2013.
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Lot Essay

This shape of the present cooler was designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis père for the Louis XV service. Only three seaux à liqueur ovale bleu céleste fleurs were sold by the Vincennes Factory in 1755, and all three were delivered to the marchand mercier Lazare Duvaux: two between 1 June and 1 October 1755, and one between 1 October and 31 December 1755, each at a price of 240 livres.

Jean-Jacques Sioux le jeune is recorded as a painter of flowers at the manufactory from 1752 to 1760.

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