Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres porcelain pot-pourri vases, the porcelain circa 1773-1774, the mounts Louis XVI, circa 1775
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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres porcelain pot-pourri vases, the porcelain circa 1773-1774, the mounts Louis XVI, circa 1775
the porcelain bodies and covers decorated with pink roses within foliate-wreath reserves on a bleu céleste ground, the cover with a pinecone finial above a chain scroll band and pierced ovolu frieze, flanked by squared pierced handles supported on lion head masks on a waisted acanthus and laurel leaf foot upon a square base
height 11⅝in.; 29,5 cm.
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Paire de vases formant pots-pourris en porcelaine de Sèvres et bronze doré, la porcelaine bleu céleste vers 1773-1774, la monture d'époque Louis XVI, vers 1775
height 11⅝in.; 29,5 cm.
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Aveline gallery, Jean-Marie Rossi, Paris.
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Galerie Aveline, Jean-Marie Rossi, Paris.
Svend Eriksen, Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, 1987, pp.132-133.
Linda H. Roth, Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, pp. 156-158.
Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Volume I, 2009, pp.343-345.
Vases of this form were produced at Sèvres specifically for mounting. Listed in the Sèvres manufacturing inventories variously as vases à monter, gobelet à monter or vases gobelets.Amongst the earliest mentions is a record in 1762 when a ‘Gobelet à Monter’ was sold for 336 Livres (de Bellaigue, 2009, p.343). The forms proved extremely popular and records exist of purchases being made by the principal marchand-merciers of Paris; Jean Dulac, Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre, Madame Lair and Bazin are all recorded. On 4th September 1770 the marchand-mercier Poirier sold for 942 livres ‘une garniture de cheminée de cinq Pieces de porcelaine de france Bleu celeste à petites Roses & montées en bronze doré d’or moulu’. It seems probable that such vases were produced to compete with the fashion for mounting Oriental porcelain.
A garniture of five bleu-celeste ground Pot-pourri vases, incorporating the smaller egg-shaped vases is in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, ref. 1917.1096-1100, published by Roth, Corbeiller, 2000, no.74. A pair of bleu-celeste ground Pot-pourri vases and covers of matching form and decoration to the two central flanking vases, from the René Fribourg collection was sold at Sotheby’s London, 25th June 1963, lot 58. A garniture with the central vase similar to the current pair formerly in A mansion overlooking a Royal Park, was sold Sotheby's London, 28 April 2015, lot 108.