THE STANDS WITH DATE LETTERS E FOR 1757, BLUE INTERLACED LS TO EACH PIECE, INDISTINCT PAINTER'S MARKS TO STANDS, ONE STAND WITH INCISED C, THE OTHER WITH INCISED G, THE STANDS POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED AND THUS POSSIBLY WITH LATER ELEMENTS TO THE DECORATION

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN FLOWER-POTS (VASE HOLLANDAIS)
THE STANDS WITH DATE LETTERS E FOR 1757, BLUE INTERLACED Ls TO EACH PIECE, INDISTINCT PAINTER'S MARKS TO STANDS, ONE STAND WITH INCISED C, THE OTHER WITH INCISED G, THE STANDS POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED AND THUS POSSIBLY WITH LATER ELEMENTS TO THE DECORATION
Of flared form, the rims with gilt-dentil bands above rose sections enclosed within shaded gilt scrolling leaves above a plain section painted with trailing flowers, the lower parts with simulated spiral gadrooning edged with shaded gilt scrolls enclosing further rose-ground sections, the pierced shaped oval stands also with a rose ground reserved with panels of flowers edged with shaded gilt scrolls divided by gilt roundels, below tapering rectangular gilt diaper-pattern sections
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high overall (2)

Provenance

Baron Adolphe and Baron Maurice de Rothschild.
Lord Michelham, sold Sotheby's London, 8 November 1966, lot 22.

Exhibited

Geneva Musée d'Art et Histoire, no. 446 according to attached paper labels.

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Lot Essay

This well known form was introduced at Sèvres in three sizes in 1754 and 1758 and was still recorded in production records of the 1790s. The earliest title vase 'á la hollandoise' is belived to derive form the use of these vases as bulb pots and may refer to the Dutch delftware vases of the 17th and 18th centuries.

For a discussion of the form, and for illustrations of the vases in the Wallace Collection, London, see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (London, 1988), pp. 69-91.

A closely related pair was sold from the collection of Cécile de Rothschild, Christie's Paris, 11 March 2003, lot 403.

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