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Vincennes Cup and Saucer
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This item has been sold
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Dates
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1755
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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A beautiful Vincennes cup and saucer (Gobelet Calabre et soucoupe), painted with stunning floral decoration in coloured enamels and elaborate gilt, reserved on a blue celeste ground. Painter's mark B for an unknown flower painter (active 1754-58)
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Condition
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Minor wear
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Literature
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See R. J. Charleston and Judith Bolingbroke, ""The Sèvres Collection in a New Light"", Apollo, March 1972, p. 33.
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Exhibitions
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A cup of exactly the same shape, size and decoration is in the Jones Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum (775-1882).
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