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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES APPLE-GREEN-GROUND 'VASE A TETES DE BOUC'
Lot 41

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES APPLE-GREEN-GROUND 'VASE A TETES DE BOUC'

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY OR VERY SLIGHTLY LATER

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES APPLE-GREEN-GROUND 'VASE A TETES DE BOUC'
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY OR VERY SLIGHTLY LATER
The domed lid with fluted guilloche decoration and a foliate finial, the goat's heads handles reserved in white and gilding and garlanded with fruiting vine, the body with an apple-green-ground scattered with gilt flower-sprays, the ground-colour and gilt-decoration probably later, the later replacement foot formed as an ormolu cup and spreading part-fluted and pounced socle with ribbon-tied laurel collar and concave-cornered square base, the interior of the cover with a handwritten paper label to interior inscribed '5274', originally with plate to the base of the socle, the finial to the cover reglued, crack to one horn, light rubbing to gilding
12¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high

Acquired from Guiraud et Guiraud Frères S., 5 December 1932.

Specialist note

See Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain, Catalogue of The Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1991, pp. 88-93, no. 18 for a pair of blue, white and gilt vases of similar form, and a discussion of other known examples. See also Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain, The James A. de Rothchild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (Fribourg, 1968), pp. 274-7, no. 99.

This form of vase is probably the vase refered to in the factory records as vases à têtes de bouc made circa 1767-72, though similar forms are referred to as 'vase à raisins' and 'vaze à têtes de bouc'. The form is referred to by Albert Troude in Choix de Modéles de la Manufacture Nationale de Porcelaine de Sèvres, Appartenant au Musée Céramique (Paris, 1897) as 'vase bouc à raisins', the popular title applied in the early 19th century and used to label the plaster original still at Sèvres. This vase appears to have been a popular form for use in garnitures and was made with a variety of forms of cover.