Pair of Vincennes seaux à bouteille by Armand, l'ainé. The exquisitely painted large birds are by the acknowledged master of bird painting at Vincennes and Sèvres, Louis-Denis Armand l’ainé, known as “the Crescent Painter”. [One with a firing crack, the other with a repaired base.]

Ex Collection: “Mme X” (Mme. Henri Meunier): Paris; 5 March, 1914. Nº  54    

                       Ella Morris de Peyster: Parke-Bernet; New York, 19 June, 1958. Nº 71