A pair of rare Meissen vases after the Duplessis model, circa 1755A pair of rare Meissen vases after the Duplessis model, circa 1755After the Vincennes/Sèvres model by Jean-Claude Duplessis, each of lobed flared shape moulded with rocailles to the body and applied with scrolling handles, heightened in gilding and with a gilt border of shells, foliate scrollwork and trellis panels along the rim, on a naturalistic rockwork base applied with foliage and sea shells, 25.3cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue to the rear of the bases (minor rubbing to gilding and tiny chips to foliage) (2)The vase Duplessis was made in several variations at the Vincennes manufactory in the late 1740s and early 1750s. A pair of Vincennes vases, circa 1752-53, of the type that the Meissen manufactory must have copied are in the collection of the Minneapolis Museum of Art (accession no. 82.2.1).