A French porcelain pot pourri vase and cover the porcelain circa 1740, the enamel decoration probably later

probably St. Cloud, modelled in the form of a basket overflowing with naturalistically modelled fruit, centered by a flower encrusted pot pourri jar and pierced cover. 

Some chips and losses overall to the applied flower and leaf decoration. Cover: 1/2-in. chip to the flange; tip of the knop is chipped off. Vase and fruit basket: the bunch of grapes has been broken in half in two pieces and riveted back into place; some chips to the grapes; a small fruit to the left of the grapes has been broken away; another fruit element in the area of the peach and pomegranate on the right appears to be missing
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A white example, lacking its cover, catalogued as St. Cloud, was in the Collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold at Christie's New York, March 21, 1991, lot 3.