Milk jug
Hard porcelain enhanced with gilding
Vignette mark in iron red
Dimensions : H. ; W. (cm.)
Paris, circa 1780
A pot à lait with a large belly, resting on a tripod base. Very fine gilding in latticework and friezes.
The Clignancourt Manufactory
Placed under the protection of the King's brother, Monsieur, Comte de Provence, from 1777, it produced mainly gilded pieces and then polychrome in the second half of the 1780s. The vignette is marked with Monsieur's initials: L.S.X.
Condition report: very fresh gilding, minor wear.