Lot Essay
A pair of green-ground vases of the same form and painted by Dodin are in the Wallace Collection, see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. I, London, 1988, pp. 263-266.
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CIRCA 1770-75, BOTH INCISED WITH A C AND BACKWARDS C, ONE ALSO WITH AN INCISED I AND N
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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS (VASES ‘ALLEMANDS UNIS’ ET COUVERCLES)
CIRCA 1770-75, BOTH INCISED WITH A C AND BACKWARDS C, ONE ALSO WITH AN INCISED I AND N
Each with a band of elongated 'pearls' at the rim, the stop fluted neck alternate with pin-prick decoration, finely painted to one side with a harbor scene in the manner of Charles Morin, the obverse with a pastoral scene, flanked by pierced upright scroll handles, the lower body alternating gilt and gilt ciselé gadroons, on a conforming base
7 3/8 in. (18.6 cm.) high; 8 ¾ in. (22.1 cm.) wide, overall
CIRCA 1770-75, BOTH INCISED WITH A C AND BACKWARDS C, ONE ALSO WITH AN INCISED I AND N
Each with a band of elongated 'pearls' at the rim, the stop fluted neck alternate with pin-prick decoration, finely painted to one side with a harbor scene in the manner of Charles Morin, the obverse with a pastoral scene, flanked by pierced upright scroll handles, the lower body alternating gilt and gilt ciselé gadroons, on a conforming base
7 3/8 in. (18.6 cm.) high; 8 ¾ in. (22.1 cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
Baron Gustave de Rothschild.
Baroness Renée de Becker, New York.
With Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York.
Henry Ford II; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 February 1978, lot 42.
Baroness Renée de Becker, New York.
With Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York.
Henry Ford II; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 February 1978, lot 42.
Exhibited
New York, The Frick Collection, Vincennes and Sèvres, June - August 1980.
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