A PAIR OF VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE FLARED PIERCED QUATREFOIL BASKETS FROM THE LOUIS XV SERVICE (corbeilles rondes élevées), the overlapping pierced lappets edged in gilding entwined with a deep bleu celeste ribbon, the rims with pierced blue and gilt husks, the lower part with a band of basketweave between white and gilt rope-twist ornament (one basket with extended firing crack to base and with the tops of two lappets and husks restored and another a restored replacement, the other basket broken and repaired at one side and with part of two lappets lacking), the first basket with blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter B above a dot for 1754, both with incised P.Z to footrim

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A PAIR OF VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE FLARED PIERCED QUATREFOIL BASKETS FROM THE LOUIS XV SERVICE (corbeilles rondes élevées), the overlapping pierced lappets edged in gilding entwined with a deep bleu celeste ribbon, the rims with pierced blue and gilt husks, the lower part with a band of basketweave between white and gilt rope-twist ornament (one basket with extended firing crack to base and with the tops of two lappets and husks restored and another a restored replacement, the other basket broken and repaired at one side and with part of two lappets lacking), the first basket with blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter B above a dot for 1754, both with incised P.Z to footrim
15.5cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

For a full discussion of this service see Christie's, 12 June 1995, lots 387-394 and David Peters, 'A Service for King Louis XV', Christie's International Magazine, May/June 1995, pp. 64-65

Part of the service was exhibited at the Versailles Tables Royales Exhibition, see Rosalind Savill, 'Le Premiere Service de Porcelaine de Louis XV' Versailles et les Tables Royales en Europe XVIIème-XIXème siècles, pp. 281-285

The corbeille ronde élevée was produced in three sizes of which this is the 2nd size which were sold for 168 livres each. On 31 December 1755 eight cobeilles rondes élevées de 5 pouces were delivered to the King, see the Sèvres sales register entries for corbeilles 1.1. 1754- 31.12.1758

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