Footnotes

• A watering can of the same size, date and with similar decoration, is in the Getty Collection, see Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain, 1991, no 1, pp 4-7, where a full discussion of the shape is given. A small number of watering cans can be found in the Vincennes/Sèvres factory records between 1754 and 1759. The price of the finished articles as given in the Factory Shop records of 1758, is 108 livres for the second size (as in this lot) and 120 livres for the larger examples. All were decorated with flower sprays, although a few were specified as monochrome blue flowers. Between 1755 and 1757, thirteen examples are listed in the Sales Records, ten of the second size. Of these, one was sold to a M. Bouderey, one to Mme Berryer, one for cash and five to the dealer, Lazare Duvaux. Duvaux's Livre Journal records examples of the second size sold to the marquis de Gontaut in December 1755 and to the dauphine, Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, in January 1757. Sassoon records seven examples surviving today, three of the first size and four of the second size: one in the Getty, another in the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and a third in the C.L. David Collection in Copenhagen. This example may be the fourth of the second size recorded in an English private collection. One example of this size, also dated 1754, was in the collection of Prince Anatoly Demidov (together with one of the larger size), sold by Messrs. Pillet and Mannheim, Paris, March 22-April 28, 1870, lot 157, however the photograph in the catalogue reveals that it was not this lot. Another of the second size and correct date was in the collection of the Baron d'Ivry, sold by Galerie Georges Petit in Paris May 7-9, 1884, lot 147. Three others of unknown size were sold at auction in London in the 1880s.