Lot 95
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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU ORMOLU-MOUNTED VASES (VASES 'A BANDES', 2EME GRANDEUR)
A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU ORMOLU-MOUNTED VASES (VASES 'A BANDES', 2EME GRANDEUR)
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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU ORMOLU-MOUNTED VASES (VASES 'A BANDES', 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1775, THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS DODIN, INCISED PE AND PT, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU ORMOLU-MOUNTED VASES (VASES 'A BANDES', 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1775, THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS DODIN, INCISED PE AND PT, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE
Each oviform vase with gadrooned cover and acorn finial, the sides with studded pilasters and laurel garlands, painted in colors with pastoral scenes, the reverse with bouquets, on later ormolu bases with beaded edges
13 in. (33 cm.) high, the vases (4)
Provenance
A French royal palace (by tradition).
Edward, Viscount Lascelles, prior to his death in 1814.
By descent through the family.
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood; Christie's, London,
1 July 1965, lot 28.
With À La Vielle Russie, New York.
Property of a Texas Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 25-26 October 1994, lot 259.
Literature
R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, p. 396, footnote 3-g.

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Lot Essay

Sèvres produced the vase à bandes in two variations of shape and two of size. The present pair are examples of the more common shape A, produced between 1769 and 1776 and of the smaller of the two sizes. The variant shape B which replaces the side projections and garlands with satyr-mask handles was in production by 1774.

When the vases were sold in 1965, the painting was attributed to Dodin on the basis of similar vases in the Wallace Collection. See R. Savill, Wallace Collection, c318; also The Chistner Collection, Christie's New York, 9 June 1979, vol. III, lot 225 for a similar blue-ground pair painted with putti. Information on another pair of vases attributed to Dodin are at the Boughton House: see P. Gregory, "Temoins du plus grand service royal," no. 435, May 1988, pp. 56-64.

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