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Lot Essay
This form, one of the first created at Vincennes before 1953, was conceived to hold an onion plant.
Charles Buteux (later père), a painter of figures, trophies and flowers, was active at Sèvres from 1756 to 1782.
Similar examples, painted with flowers, are illustrated by T. Préud and A. Fäy-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 1977-1978, p. 144, nos. 432-436. Also see M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 135, no. 37.
Charles Buteux (later père), a painter of figures, trophies and flowers, was active at Sèvres from 1756 to 1782.
Similar examples, painted with flowers, are illustrated by T. Préud and A. Fäy-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 1977-1978, p. 144, nos. 432-436. Also see M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 135, no. 37.