Rare Early Vincennes Perfume Burner, Circa 1745-1748
Height: 5 ¼ ins. (13.3 cms.) Length: 5 ins. (12.7 cms.)
Item No. 1967
A Rare Early Vincennes Perfume Burner of pierced baluster shape with everted lip encrusted with blooming roses on leafy vines which grow from the rocky mound of the gnarled tree...
A Rare Early Vincennes Perfume Burner of pierced baluster shape with everted lip encrusted with blooming roses on leafy vines which grow from the rocky mound of the gnarled tree stump base.
Further Details: The form is referred to as a pot-pourri fleurs en relief and can be found at St Cloud and Mennecy, where a Vincennes example is first mentioned in the account books of the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux (1703-1758) on 26 October 1748.
See a mounted polychrome decorated example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (C.367&A-1909) illustrated in Tamara Préaud and Antoine d’Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (1991), cat. 71.