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Lot 157
A pair of Sèvres blue-céleste ground flower vases (vases 'hollandois nouveau ovale'), dated 1764
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£40,000 - £60,000
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A pair of Sèvres blue-céleste ground flower vases (vases 'hollandois nouveau ovale'), dated 1764
Of the fourth size, painted by Gabriel Rousseau, the top sections reserved with panels depicting Watteau-style scenes, one with a shepherd playing the bagpipes, the other with a shepherdess and a sheep, the sides with panels of trophies and flowers, within elaborate gilt line cartouches intertwined with foliate vines, the pierced bases reserved with similar cartouches of flower sprays, 19.5cm high, interlaced LL monograms enclosing date letters L in blue and painter's marks for Rousseau (to the vases) (small restored chip to back one vase) (4)
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Provenance:
Comtesse d'Aubigny, Christie's London, 21 June 1976, lot 172;
The Christner Collection, Christie's New York, 30 November - 1 December 1979, lot 193;
The Property of a Gentleman, Christie's New York, 21 May 2003, lot 146;
Anon. Sale, Christie's New York, 24 Oct 2012, lot 90
Literature:
R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. I (1988), p. 116, footnote u
Exhibited:
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Convention Center, Loan Collection, 17-20 March 1977, no. 4
The vase 'hollandois nouveau ovale' was introduced into production in 1758 in five sizes and continued being made until the 1780s, although the shape was only specified in the sale records between 1758 and 1761, see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection - Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (1988), vol. I, pp. 109f. The smaller sizes, including the fourth size, were known to have been made from the 1750s until the mid 1760s, like the present pair, and were often produced in pairs (Savill, p. 111).
Other examples of the fourth size are in the Huntington (object no. 27.42), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. 58.75.86a, b), the Rijksmuseum (object no. BK-17510-B), the Musée des Arts Decoratifs and Harewood House.
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