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Lot Essay
The present vase would appear to be a variant form of the 'Vase Parseval', named after the shareholder Philibert Parseval. They were meant for the dessert table to display fresh or crystalized fruit. Lazard Duvaux's Livre-journal records that, on 13 March 1753, he sold "petits vases de Vincennes pour porter des fruits".
See Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, London, 1987, p. 218, no. 35 for the slightly smaller example of the same form as the present example in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence; also Exhibition Catalogue, Porcelaines de Vincennes, les origines de Sèvres, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, pp. 145-146, nos. 439-447 in which are illustrated examples of the more common waisted form and an example similar in form but slightly smaller than the present example (no. 447).
See Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, London, 1987, p. 218, no. 35 for the slightly smaller example of the same form as the present example in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence; also Exhibition Catalogue, Porcelaines de Vincennes, les origines de Sèvres, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, pp. 145-146, nos. 439-447 in which are illustrated examples of the more common waisted form and an example similar in form but slightly smaller than the present example (no. 447).