Lot Essay
This Savonnerie panel is directly inspired by the painting entitled 'Vase de lapis, sphre et musette,' executed by Henri-Horace Roland de Laporte for his admission to the Paris Acadmie in 1763.
An identical panel, now in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Lyon, is attributed to the Duvivier's in P. Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, The Savonnerie, London, 1982, p. 314, fig. 191.
An identical panel, now in the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Lyon, is attributed to the Duvivier's in P. Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, The Savonnerie, London, 1982, p. 314, fig. 191.