A pair of Sèvres Royal Portrait bleu nouveau two-handled vases and covers (vases 'oeufs garnis'), circa 1774
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October 11, 05:25 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 EUR
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Description
A pair of Sèvres Royal Portrait bleu nouveau two-handled vases and covers (vases 'oeufs garnis'), circa 1774
the ovoid bodies reserved with Royal biscuit portrait medallions of the King Louis XVI or Queen Marie Antoinette, bust-length in profile, below gilded husk medallions suspended from swags issuing from the plain and gilt key-pattern leaf-moulded handles, the covers moulded with white and gilt bands of stiff leaves and hare bells, the lower part with similar gadrooning, supported by square bases, the blue ground gilt with cornucopia, fronds and plinths supporting cockerels and birds below bands of scrolling foliage, blue interlaced L's mark, blue gilders mark for Le Guay
height 16¾in.; 42,7 cm.
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Paire de vases bleu nouveau 'oeufs garnis', Manufacture de Sèvres, vers 1774
height 16¾in.; 42,7 cm.
(2)
Almost certainly the pair recorded in the factory records for 1774 as vases oeufs garni;
Sotheby's London, 2 August 1951, lot 142;
W.J. Sainsbury Esq., Yorkshire;
Sotheby's London, 5 December 1972, lot 145;
Sotheby's Zurich, 24 November 1993, lot 121;
Christie's New York, 24 October 2012, lot 61.
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Presque certainement la paire enregistrée dans les registres de la manufacture pour 1774 comme vases oeufs garnis;
Sotheby's à Londres, 2 août 1951, lot 142;
W.J. Sainsbury Esq., Yorkshire;
Sotheby's à Londres, 5 décembre 1972, lot 145;
Sotheby's Zurich, 24 novembre 1993, lot 121;
Christie's New York, 24 octobre 2012, lot 61.
A. Sassoon, Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991, p. 96.
R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. I, 1988, 1, pp. 343 and 347, footnote 6.
T. Préaud, 'La manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siécle', Monuments Historiques, August - September 1983, no. 128, pp. 46-51.
M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres, Des Origines à Nos Jours, 1978, p. 197, cat. no. 220.
Related Literature
G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Vol. I, 2009, cat. nos. 558, 59, 60, 48 (three vases 'medaillon du roi', egg-shaped and applied with portrait medallions of the French king and a vase 'pot pourri Mercure' applied with biscuit portrait medallions of Louis XV and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria).
R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. I, 1988, cat. no. 320 (vase 'Casoulette Bachelier' similarly gilt by Le Guay); Vol. III, pp. 1045-1046 (a biography of the gilder Le Guay).
E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XVIII Siècle, Vol. I, 1909, p. 159 (for the biscuit portrait medallion of the king).
A. Troude, Choix de Modéles de la Manufacture Nationale de Porcelaine de Sèvres, appartenant au Musée Céramique, 1897, planche 123 (for the plaster model, titled vase oeuf de Louis XVI garni).
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