The Evill/Frost Collection Part III

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Lot 210
  • 210

A rare Vincennes large cup made for the Turkish market 1754-55

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • interlaced Ls enclosing date letter B for 1754-55, Wilfrid Evill Collection Label
  • Porcelain
  • 9.5cm., 4in.
bardaque, decorated with a turquoise bleu céleste ground reserved with a mixed spray of  flowers and fruit, gilded with palm fronds and flowers, the rim with dents de loup

Condition

There is some wear to the gilded dents de loup around the rim
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Catalogue Note

Rosalind Savill has made a special study of the Vincennes/Sèvres factory and the Turkish market.  In a lecture during the French Porcelain Society Seminar 9th October 2009 she gave a survey of possible shapes and decoration.  In the 1753 stocklist of the Vincennes factory, twenty-three models were recorded 'pour le turc' and in 1754, eighteen more were added.  They consisted of useful wares, toilet wares and vases.  Ten different versions of bardaque or large cup shape are listed, and this item is thought to correspond to one of these.  The decoration of turquoise ground and flowers is also found on the large coffer plaques of 1754-5 thought to have been made for a Turkish client in the Wallace Collection.  See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, Vol. II, pp. 843-847, C495. By 1756 Vincennes had stopped making special pieces for the Turkish market as this date marked the beginning of a period of isolation from Europe for the Ottoman empire following the Treaty of Versailles in May of that year.

For another example of this rare shape together with a saucer, see Tamara Préaud, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, p. 72, no. 9