A Vincennes dish or stand (plateau ovale) c.1752, painted with two panels containing colourful birds in flight, two holding leafy branches in their beaks, within elaborate gilt floral borders reserved on a bleu lapis ground, blue interlaced Ls mark, with a later ormolu mount raised on four shell feet, broken and restuck, 25.8cm. Provenance: formerly in the collection of Hector Binney. Purchased from Sotheby's, 28th November 1989, lot 1123.