A SEVRES FLOWER POT AND STAND (VASE 'HOLLANDOIS' 2EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E FOR 1757-1758 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR VIELLIARD TO THE POT, GILT INTERLACED L'S TO THE STAND, BOTH INCISED 5

Details

A SEVRES FLOWER POT AND STAND (VASE 'HOLLANDOIS' 2EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter E for 1757-1758 and painter's mark for Vielliard to the pot, gilt interlaced L's to the stand, both incised 5
Painted in colours in the style of Boucher with a little boy in a garden playing the flute and with a landscape vignette of a stone house, the sides with trophies of Music and Agriculture suspended from blue bows, each within a gilt rocaille scroll cartouche, the base with gardening and beekeeping tools within similar cartouches
7.3/8in. (18.7cm.) high, 7in. (19.7cm.) wide
Vielliard, Andr-Vincent (2)

Provenance

Wilfred Sainsbury, Esq.; Sotheby's & Co., London, 21 May 1957, lot 148, withdrawn from the sale
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 35, acquired directly from W.J. Sainsbury November 1962

Lot Essay

The children on the present vase are not taken from an engraved source. They are typical of the work of Andr-Vincent Vielliard, active at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers, 1752-1790.

The trophy on one end (see illustration) is very close to that painted on the end of a similarly shaped vase in the David Collection, Copenhagen, painted by Charles-Nocolas Dodin in 1756 with putti in clouds. See Svend Erikson, The David Collection, French Porcelain, Copenhagen, 1980, nos. 47-48.

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