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Lot 96

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$6,000 - 8,000
Price Realized
$12,600
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Lot Description

A Pair of Vincennes Gilt-Metal Mounted Porcelain Orange Tubs (Caisses à Fleurs Carrées, 2ème Grandeur) Fitted with Porcelain Flowers on Papier-Mâché Stems
The Porcelain Pots 1755

one bearing blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter B and unidentified flower painter's mark O, the other with a mark of four dots forming a lozenge for Fontaine, the finials later metal replacements, the porcelain flowers also of later date; each square tub on bracket feet with each panel painted in colors with a loose bouquet within a camieu bleu trailing vine, fitted with papier-mâché-wrapped metal stems, paper leaves and porcelain flowerheads issuing from the papier-mâché ‘earth’.
Height of cache pots overall 5 5/8 inches; height overall (including plants) 15 1/2 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

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