A Sèvres 'vase hollandais' and stand circa 1757-58

of the second size, each painted by François-Joseph Aloncle in blue camaieu, the vase with a landscape vignette on each side, one with figures and buildings, enclosed by trailing flowers entwined with flanking trellis arches, the reverse with a building in a landscape enclosed by a circular band of trailing flowers, between blue line borders with gilt dashes, the rim with a gilt dentil border, the pierced stand with gilt-edged painted blue trellis panels, between trailing flowers and shaped apertures on two registers

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 2nd October 1989, lot 231

François-Joseph Aloncle is recorded as a painter of birds, animals and landscapes between 1758 and 1781. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol.I, p.89, for the sales records, and p.88 for other recorded examples of the second size.