"Clignancourt, Comte De Provence - Louis XVI Period Shell-shaped Fruit Bowl - Paris Porcelain"
Fruit bowlPainted and gilded hard porcelain
Vignette mark in iron red
Dimensions : L. (cm.)
Paris, circa 1780
Shell-shaped compotier with poly-lobed rims. Finely gilded and painted with barbels.
La Manufacture de ClignancourtPlaced under the protection of the King's brother, Monsieur, Comte de Provence, from 1777, it produced mainly gilded pieces, then polychrome in the second half of the 1780s. The mark on the vignette is that of Monsieur's initials: L.S.X.
Condition report: very fresh gilding, minor wear
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