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The first items from Vincennes to have a yellow painted background appeared in about 1749-50. This was one of the hardest colours to work. Only a few examples of such articles are known. As a rule they bear polychrome miniatures in fields uncovered by the background. From 1752 polychrome flowers and birds appeared in the fields on a yellow background, and later decoration en camaïeu (monochrome painting) using the blue known as beau bleu. The sugar-bowl is the only Vincennes product with such decoration in the Hermitage. The painting was the work of the factory's oldest artist, Andrè Veillard from an engraving of an original by Boucher. |
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