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Lot Essay
Jean-Jacques Pierre, le jeune was a painter of flowers, patterns and gilder active 1763-1800.
The Sèvres factory produced vases à monter, or vases intended to be fitted with ormolu mounts, beginning in around 1764. There were three main forms which were sold largely to marchand-merciers who then embellished them. These mounts tend to conform to five basic patterns, which could indicate each marchand mercier had its own signature design. The earlier vases were glazed in solid ground colors, although invoices exist for pieces decorated with green and blue grounds scattered with foliate wreaths centered by roses by 1770.
Related examples with an apple green ground include: a pair, formerly part of a garniture, with apple-green ground from the collection of the Late Earl of Sefton and sold by Christie's at Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, 17-20 September 1973, lot 908 and again Christie's London, 5 July 1984, lot 13; a three-piece garniture from the Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992, lot 31; a pair and two garnitures of three, each on solid apple green ground, sold from Houghton, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lots 36-38.
George Byng (1764-1847), a Whig politician, was one of the wealthiest members of his party. His vast income of over £20,000 a year allowed him to indulge his love of collecting; he installed his treasures at Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, and his London townhouse on St. James’s Square. Byng purchased this garniture directly from Madame Escudier, which refers to a marchand-mercier whom he is known to have patronized. The 1847 inventories display a remarkable consistency in taste for objets d'art, buhl and Sèvres porcelain-mounted furniture as well as Old Master Pictures - both in London and the country. The French furniture he acquired - much of which was purchased on at least four trips to Paris - typified the fashionable 'gout' expounded by the marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock, to whom he is known to have patronized as early as 1829.
The Sèvres factory produced vases à monter, or vases intended to be fitted with ormolu mounts, beginning in around 1764. There were three main forms which were sold largely to marchand-merciers who then embellished them. These mounts tend to conform to five basic patterns, which could indicate each marchand mercier had its own signature design. The earlier vases were glazed in solid ground colors, although invoices exist for pieces decorated with green and blue grounds scattered with foliate wreaths centered by roses by 1770.
Related examples with an apple green ground include: a pair, formerly part of a garniture, with apple-green ground from the collection of the Late Earl of Sefton and sold by Christie's at Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, 17-20 September 1973, lot 908 and again Christie's London, 5 July 1984, lot 13; a three-piece garniture from the Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992, lot 31; a pair and two garnitures of three, each on solid apple green ground, sold from Houghton, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lots 36-38.
George Byng (1764-1847), a Whig politician, was one of the wealthiest members of his party. His vast income of over £20,000 a year allowed him to indulge his love of collecting; he installed his treasures at Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, and his London townhouse on St. James’s Square. Byng purchased this garniture directly from Madame Escudier, which refers to a marchand-mercier whom he is known to have patronized. The 1847 inventories display a remarkable consistency in taste for objets d'art, buhl and Sèvres porcelain-mounted furniture as well as Old Master Pictures - both in London and the country. The French furniture he acquired - much of which was purchased on at least four trips to Paris - typified the fashionable 'gout' expounded by the marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock, to whom he is known to have patronized as early as 1829.