A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted Vincennes and Meissen porcelain inkstand, circa 1750-60

elaborately conceived as a Meissen shepherd and horse pulling an elaborate gilt-bronze cart carrying two mounted miniature Vincennes vases 'parceval', containing a pounce-pot and inkwell, flanking a small Meissen flower vase containing a tôle peinte leafy branch applied with white porcelain flowers, the base applied with bronze leaf vines

The bronze mount; two feet are loose in fitting. It would benefit from a clean. To the central white porcelain flowers, one petal is chipped and another is repaired. one flanking applied porcelain flower is loose and separate. The horse model is loose and separate, two of it's legs and both its ears are restored, there is glue residue to the underside. The shepherds staff is damaged.
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The vase Parseval is named so after Philibert de Parseval, one of the seven shareholders in the Charles Adam company established in 1745 to oversee the administration of the Vincennes manufactory. Similar examples are published by Joanna Gwilt, Vincennes and Early Sèvres porcelain from the Belvedere Collection, London, 2014, pp. 117-18, where the author notes twelve such vases appear in the Journal of Lazare Duvaux on 13^th March 1753.

The oval base is typically found on Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted Meissen and Vincennes porcelain objects, including a pair of candelabra aux perroquets formerly in the James de Rothschild collection, sold Drouot, Paris, 1 December 1966, lot 163, on a pendule à l’éléphant formerly in the Clermont d'Amboise collection, described in his 1761 inventory and sold Tajan Paris, 17 June 2015, lot 171, and on two Meissen figurines in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (64.101.118).