Lot Essay
By 1752, this form was produced in four sizes of which the present example is the first size. Between 1752 and 1760 only four examples were produced costing between 60 livres for an example with damaged painting to 96 livres with flowers and 44 livres for an isolated example of a grand broc. For a full discussion of this form see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Svres Porcelain, London, 1988, II, pp. 695-6.
Various examples of this model are known. An example of the same size, gilt with exotic birds in a trilobed panel, with a trellis forming the sides of the cartouche, and with a gilt shell centering trailing flowers below the spout, but marked with the date letter A for 1753 is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes. It is possible that this and the present example constitute the two entered two jugs listed in March 1754 by Lazard Duvaux in his Livre Journal as supplied to mme de Pompadour: "Deux brocs, lapis et or, a 120 livres".
For an example of the first size in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see Jeffrey H. Munger et al., The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1992, no. 111, pp. 163/4, and Tamara Praud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes Paris, 1991, no. 23, pp. 96-7.
An example from the Houghton Collection of the second size, and painted in colours by Armand l'an with birds on branches reserved on a bleu lapis ground within a gilt cartouche, was sold Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 42.
Various examples of this model are known. An example of the same size, gilt with exotic birds in a trilobed panel, with a trellis forming the sides of the cartouche, and with a gilt shell centering trailing flowers below the spout, but marked with the date letter A for 1753 is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes. It is possible that this and the present example constitute the two entered two jugs listed in March 1754 by Lazard Duvaux in his Livre Journal as supplied to mme de Pompadour: "Deux brocs, lapis et or, a 120 livres".
For an example of the first size in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see Jeffrey H. Munger et al., The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1992, no. 111, pp. 163/4, and Tamara Praud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes Paris, 1991, no. 23, pp. 96-7.
An example from the Houghton Collection of the second size, and painted in colours by Armand l'an with birds on branches reserved on a bleu lapis ground within a gilt cartouche, was sold Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 42.