A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE VASE À OREILLES

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A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE VASE À OREILLES
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER L FOR 1764 AND PAINTER'S MARK POSSIBLY OF SIOUX

Of baluster form, the scroll handles enriched in gilding, one side painted with shepherd lovers beside a hut in a landscape, the reverse with bagpipes, a feathered hat and a birdcage suspended from a moirè ribbon among garlands of flowers (minute rim chips to handles)--7½in. (19cm.) high

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 470

Lot Essay

Jean-Charles Sioux was active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1752 to 1792. The pierced medallions on the bagpipes are strangely reminiscent of Sioux's painter's mark. Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue, in her exhaustive list of vases of this model pp. 144 - 147 does not appear to mention the present example, which may therefore be an unrecorded specimen.

Taken from the engraving from Les Amours Pastorales,"Ne plaignons pas le sort de ces bergers."

Claude Dujlos le jeune after Boucher

Pierrette Jean-Richard, no. 932

This engraving may well have served as the model for L'oracle.