Wine-bottle cooler (seau à bouteille). Culture: French, Vincennes. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 7 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 7 13/16 in. (20 × 26.4 × 19.8 cm). Manufactory: Vincennes Manufactory (French, ca. 1740-1756). Modeler: Attributed to Jean-Claude Duplessis (French, ca. 1695-1774, active 1748-74). Date: 1754.These wine-bottle coolers (see also 1970.230.5) are among the eight produced for one of the most famous porcelain services of the eighteenth century. The dinner and dessert service was ordered by Louis XV from the Vincennes factory in 1751, and it was delivered between 1753 and 1755, in three major installments because of the large number of pieces involved. The service included many new forms, and, most notably, it was the first time that the ground color bleu céleste (sky blue) was employed for a service. This brilliant turquoise blue was one of the most expensive of all ground colors to produce, and it remained popular throughout the eighteenth century. The technical difficulty
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