Description
This rare vase shape is decorated with the "bleu de roi" ground. The harbor scenes have been attributed to the decorator Jean-Louis Morin; the gilding is by Henri-François Vincent jeune.
Provenance
E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 66; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letters in gold: bb (1779); [Gilder's Mark] In gold: 2000 (Vincent, Henry Francois jeune)
