The top painted after Lancret with a couple catching love birds, the underside with a bagpiper seated before goats, the sides with figures in landscapes, all within lightly molded rocaille cartouches, the interior after Watteau with a Commedia dell’Arte scene of Scaramouche approaching a noble woman and young man
2³⁄₄ in. (6.9 cm.) long

The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

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The scene on the cover is derived from Nicolas de Larmessin’s 1736 engraving after Nicolas Lancret’s painting Les amours du bocage. The scene on the interior of the cover is derived from Laurent Cars’s engraving after Antoine Watteau’s Fêtes Vénitiennes. For an illustration of Larmessin’s print see Elfriede Langeloh, Langeloh Porcelain, 100 Jahre, Porzellane und Fayencen des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1919-2019, Weinheim, 2019, p. 303, fig. 257, and for an illustration of Cars’s print see Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Dresden, 2018, vol. 2, p. 450.