Lot Essay
The potpourri 'Pompadour' was designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis, pre circa 1752 by which time the name starts to appear in the factory kiln records. Named in honour of madame de Pompadour who had become the king's mistress in 1745, it was produced in four sizes, with variations in the apetures and finials. Versions with no holes were also made, recorded as vases or urnes 'Pompadour'. See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of the Svres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, pp. 127-135 for a thorough discussion of the model and its various permutations.
Also sold in the Sotheby auction of 1957 was a pair of 'potpourri Pompadour' decorated en camaeu rose with enfants Boucher on a bleu lapis ground but dated 1756. Now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, they are marginally smaller than the present example and were painted with putti in clouds by Jean-Louis Morin from engravings by Louis-Flix de La Rue. The pigments used for camaeu rose decoration were supplied to the factory along with other colours by Pierre-Antoine-Henry Taunay from the early 1740's. In 1745, the factory purchased these secret recipes. See Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Svres Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, 1991, no. 3 for a detailed discussion of this pair.
Andr-Vincent Vielliard, recorded at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-1790
Also sold in the Sotheby auction of 1957 was a pair of 'potpourri Pompadour' decorated en camaeu rose with enfants Boucher on a bleu lapis ground but dated 1756. Now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, they are marginally smaller than the present example and were painted with putti in clouds by Jean-Louis Morin from engravings by Louis-Flix de La Rue. The pigments used for camaeu rose decoration were supplied to the factory along with other colours by Pierre-Antoine-Henry Taunay from the early 1740's. In 1745, the factory purchased these secret recipes. See Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Svres Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, 1991, no. 3 for a detailed discussion of this pair.
Andr-Vincent Vielliard, recorded at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-1790