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A Sèvres vase purchased by either Madame Sophie or Madame Louise, daughters of Louis XV on December 30, 1758
4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,480 inc. premium
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A Sèvres vase purchased by either Madame Sophie or Madame Louise, daughters of Louis XV on December 30, 1758
Pot à fleurs, Vase Indien E, of quatrefoil baluster shape with everted rim, decorated in puce camaieu with garlands of flowers held by ribbons and birds, the rim with a puce band with gilt dashes under a gilt dentil border, the footrim with a similar decoration, 17.5cm high, interlaced double L and date letter 'E' for the date of production, 1757, unidentified painters mark of three dots
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Provenance:
Purchased by either Madame Sophie or Madame Louise, daughters of Louis XV on December 30, 1758;
Piasa, Hotel Drouot, 4 June 2003, lot 98;
Peschteau-Badin, Paris, 14 June 2019, lot 100;
Acquired in the above sale
This shape was likely originally conceived to hold a flower bulb, bringing the garden inside for winter time. See: T. Préud and A. Fäy-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, 1977-1978, p. 144, nos. 432-436 and M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, 1978, p. 135, no. 37.
On December 30, 1758, the Sevres factory sold two garlanded flower pots for 48 livres each, one to Madame Sophie, the other to Madame Louise, most certainly corresponding to the present vase (Arch. Sevres, cité de la Céramique, Vy2, p. 76 and 77).
This form of vase, which appeared at the end of the 1740s, has always been named Vase indien E as it was listed in the 1814 inventory as such. Cyrille Froissart, when selling the piece in 2019, proved that this shape initially was named simply called pot à fleurs in the 18th century archives. He links the denomination to a vase, likely the one now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art which was listed as le pot à fleurs Roze et verd, Garlandes.
Two pot à fleurs d'oiseaux sur fond blanc purchased at 54 livres by Madame Duvaux in December 1758 can also be succesfully linked to a pair of vases
decorated with birds on a white background, dated E for 1758, now in a private collection.
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