Lot 155
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Property from the JULES MASTBAUM FAMILY COLLECTION
Property from the

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Property from the
JULES MASTBAUM FAMILY COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Vase de Saigon

signed at the center 'Rodin'--incised with potter's marks and date 'AD 12 98 PN' and printed in black with the 1899 Sèvres factory mark 'S.99' on the underside--yellow glazed Sèvres pâte nouvelle porcelain
Height: 10 1/8in. (25.7cm.)

Original version executed 1882-1887; this porcelain version executed
in 1898 and glazed in 1899
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 30 (another vase illustrated, p. 33)
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, no. 1121 (another vase illustrated, p. 149)

Lot Essay

In 1879 Rodin accepted an invitation from Albert Carrier-Belleuse, the director of the Manufacture de Sèvres porcelain works, to design decorations for vases. He worked there until 1882, producing 18 vases. His decorations allude to the pagan idylls of Correggio, Proud'hon and Watteau.