Notes: A Vincennes wine glass cooler painted by the same hand and was perhaps the pair to the present example was sold at Christie's London, Anon. sale, 20th June 1975, lot 63, and was also acquired by Winifred Williams, and subsequently entered the collection of Sir John Plumb F.B.A, sold Christie's New York, 15th May 1999, lot 7. 

Two possible sources for the painted scenes are the engravings 'Premiere veue de Charenton' and 'Seconde veue des environs de Charenton' by Jacque Philippe Le Bas after François Boucher. A glass cooler painted in this manner, although with a known 17th century print source, is discussed by Joanna Gwilt in her recent publication, op. cit., 2014, pp. 100-101, no. 46. In July 1753 marchand-mercier Lazare–Duvaux lists in his journal 'Dix-huit seaux à verres, porcelaine de Vincennes, peints à paysages camayeux pourpres, 540 l.,' which were sold to Monseigneur le duc de Deux-Ponts.

Sotheby's, Collections, Londres, 27 oct. 2015, 10:30 AM