A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU TWO-HANDLED VASE (VASE OVALE MERCURE)

Property of A TEXAS GENTLEMAN

Details

A SÈVRES BLEU NOUVEAU TWO-HANDLED VASE (VASE OVALE MERCURE)
CIRCA 1768, BLUE INTERLACED L'S

The oval pierced domed cover with applied portrait medallions of Mercury and Plotina and gilt berried laurel, the vase with egg and dart rim above the ribbon-tied reeded rope entwined with foliage and a further band of white reeding, on a flaring base (finial a bronze replacement, cover restored, some restoration and touching up to gilding on handles)--13¼in. (33.7cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., March 8, 1979, lot 232

Lot Essay

Cf. Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain from the Royal Collection, London, 1979, no. 110 for a vase in the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II similar in shape and date to the present example but applied with biscuit portrait busts of Louis XV and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. A similar pair was in the collection of E.M. Hodgkins, nos. 52 and 53.