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A Sèvres blue-ground vase and cover, circa 1775-80
18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £47,500 inc. premium
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A Sèvres blue-ground vase and cover, circa 1775-80
Vase 'à glands', of the first size (shape C), the shoulder applied with two handles in the form of goat heads, each holding grapes in its mouth, embellished in gilding, the front reserved with a gilt-edged oval panel painted by Jean-Louis Morin with a marine scene depicting figures loading cargo, the reverse with a similar panel painted with a marine trophy incorporating an oval monochrome miniature depicting Venus and Neptune, all above a band of moulded and gilt acanthus leaves alternating with husks, the gilt-edged flared foot rising to a gilt collar with Vitruvian scroll in relief, mounted with a later gilt-metal base and rim, the cover with moulded with gilt laurel garlands and a gilt round finial, 47.5cm high (the neck reduced and replaced with a gilt-metal collar) (2)
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Provenance:
The Earl of Pembroke (possibly Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke, 7 Carlton House Terrace, Christie's, 5-13 May 1851, lot 424);
Mrs. Lyne Stephens, Lynford Hall, Norfolk, sold Christie's London, 9-17 May 1895, lot 220
Literature:
J.C. Robinson (ed.), Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediæval, Renaissance, and more Recent Periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum (rev. ed. 1863), no. 1,345;
Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. I (1988), p. 371, n. 3e
Exhibited:
London, South Kensington Museum, Special Exhibition of Works of Art, June to November 1862
This vase was sold in 1895 along with two similarly decorated vases 'à panneaux' (lot 221), also formerly in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke.
Several vases of this ground colour painted by Morin with marine scenes and with gilding by Le Guay are recorded in the Sèvres archives, though the shapes of the vases are not specified in detail: '1 vase de milieu B. BL.' [=beau bleu]and '2 vases de cotés B.Bl.' with a marine scene by Morin and another decoration by Leguay, were fired on 15th May 1779, and '3 vases B. Bl.' with one marine scene by Morin and another decoration by Leguay were fired on 29th June 1779.
A pair of vases 'à glands' of the second size (shape B) with cords rather than goat's head handles, and a pinecone finial, decorated by Morin with similar scenes and trophies on a blue ground, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. nos. 58.75.76a & b.
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