Wine cooler (seau à demi-bouteille) (one of a pair). Culture: French, Vincennes. Dimensions: 5 1/16 × 6 3/8 in. (12.9 × 16.2 cm). Factory: Vincennes Manufactory (French, ca. 1740-1756). Date: ca. 1751-52.In 1745 the company of shareholders in the Vincennes factory was granted a privilege by Louis XV for the exclusive production in France of porcelain "in the manner of Saxony, painted and gilded, with human figures." It is thus not surprising to encounter Meissen influence in both the forms and decorations of early Vincennes pieces. A well-established Meissen formula of the 1730s and early 1740s was the gold-banded cartouche enclosing a pictorial subject; at Vincennes this was adopted about 1749-52 for use mainly on coolers for wine bottles and glasses, which were painted with landscapes incorporating figures or humble cottages in the Dutch manner.By about 1752, however, the presence at Vincennes of the model designer Jean-Claude Duplessis and the painter Francois Boucher was leading