Lot 109
109
A PAIR OF SÈVRES POT-POURRI VASES (VASE POT-POURRI MYRTE)

Details
A PAIR OF SÈVRES POT-POURRI VASES (VASE POT-POURRI MYRTE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER N FOR 1766

Each of inverted pear shape with pierced neck and scroll handles, painted front and back in rich colours with birds on branches within a tooled gilt band and a further gilt wreath, the lower body gilt with foliate S-scrolls on a seeded ground, the circular foot with a wreath and gilt line edges
10½in. (26.6cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, no. C257-258.

Sèvres produced the present model in three sizes and two styles. The present pair is an example of the second version in which the moulded myrtle found on the shoulder has been replaced by fan-shaped piercing and of the second size. A pair of similar vases from the Estate of Sir Charles Clore, dated 1763 and painted by Sioux and Petit on an apple green ground with pastoral scenes after Boucher from the Estate of Charles Clore, was sold at Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1985, lot 7.