Rare Early Vincennes Perfume Burner, Circa 1745-1748
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.
Provenance
Private American CollectionLiterature
See a similar undecorated example without tree stump and an example with polychrome decoration illustrated in Joanna Gwilt, Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection (2014), cat. 1-3.Join our mailing list
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