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A Sevres bleu nouveau two-handled pot-pourri vase (vase 'pot pourri feuilles de mirte')

CIRCA 1762-68

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A Sevres bleu nouveau two-handled pot-pourri vase (vase 'pot pourri feuilles de mirte')
CIRCA 1762-68
The blue-ground body of inverted pear-shaped form, with two pierced down-turned anthemion palmette apertures below the rim flanked by pierced foliage scroll apertures issuing from gilt-edged white down-turned scrolling myrtle handles entwined with scrolls above, the apertures suspending gilt garlands above inverted pear-shaped gilt cartouches, the front with a wooded landscape vignette with figures returning from a hunt, the foreground with a dog by a boy and his horse, the reverse with a bouquet, the domed circular foot with a broad blue band gilt with garlands meandering about gilt lines (footrim with two small chips and slight wear to gilding)
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's London, 6th June 1989, lot 95.

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Lot Essay

The scene on the front is derived from Carel van Falens's Rendez-Vous de Chasse. A pair of very similar vases formerly in the Earls of Dudley Collection, also painted with hunting scenes and without covers, were sold in these Rooms on 21st May 1886, lot 185.

For a full discussion of this form of pot-pourri vase, see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (London, 1988), Vol. I, pp. 198-206.

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