Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 96
An extremely rare pair of Vincennes tobacco jars, circa 1750
3 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,280 inc. premium
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An extremely rare pair of Vincennes tobacco jars, circa 1750
Of tall cylindrical form, finely painted on each side in delicate tones with a flower spray and with a gilt band to the footrim, 15cm high, interlaced LL monograms in blue, incised C (one with haircrack issuing from firing crack to one side) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
With Bernard Dragesco & Didier Cramoisan, Paris;
The British American Tobacco Collection of Eighteenth-Century Tobacco Containers & Accessories (acquired in 1983 and 1988)
Literature:
Gage, Deborah and Marsh, Madeleine. Tobacco Containers & Accessories, 1988, no. 5
Exhibited:
London, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, The Dorchester Hotel, Special Loan Exhibition, The British-American Tobacco Company Collection of Tobacco Containers & Accessories, 10-13 June 1988
A total of only thirty-four such tobacco jars - the first version to be produced at the Vincennes manufactory - were sold in two sizes for an average price of 12 livres, mostly decorated with flowers (Tamara Préaud and Antoinette Fay-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes Les Origines de Sèvres, 1977, no. 211). A similar Vincennes tobacco jar is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (acc. no. C.299-1927 , published by Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, 1991, no. 21).
