A PAIR OF SÈVRES POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS (vase pot pourri Pompadour), each painted with scattered bouquets of flowers including roses, hydrangeas and tulips below a moulded gilt band and six pierced holes moulded with overlapping gilt scrolling foliage interspersed with three flower-sprays, the covers with similar piercing and carnation finials (one with restored finial and the other with chips to finial), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter for 1756, painter's marks for Fontaine

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS (vase pot pourri Pompadour), each painted with scattered bouquets of flowers including roses, hydrangeas and tulips below a moulded gilt band and six pierced holes moulded with overlapping gilt scrolling foliage interspersed with three flower-sprays, the covers with similar piercing and carnation finials (one with restored finial and the other with chips to finial), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter for 1756, painter's marks for Fontaine
19.5cm. high (2)

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Jacques Fontaine working at Sèvres 1752-1800, he was previously a fan painter and at first painted mainly flowers

This shape was made in four different sizes and these are examples of the smallest size which ranged from 19cm.-20cm. high, originally costing 72 livres. Lazare Duvaux was the main buyer of this shape. For a full discussion of this shape see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. I, pp. 127-135

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