A Vincennes porcelain candlestick, 1745-50, conical hyacinth vase form with ogee rim, the body painted in the round with a Meissen style Claudian landscape of ruins with courting shepherd and shepherdess, figure on horseback and attendant overlooking a coastal view of ships, the external rim decorated with a Rococo border of foliate scrolls segmented rosettes, the interior with similar border, incised marks A M to underside, 10.6cm high Note: see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 54.147.27, for an example of this form with similar border and painted decoration, also bearing the same incised marks to the underside; the French Royal Porcelain Works operated outside Paris in Vincennes from 1740 until its relocation to Sevres in 1756. The mark is illustrated in Dauteman, C C, 1986, Sevres Porcelain; Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p.174 and 218, 219