A PAIR OF SÈVRES ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLEU NOUVEAU VASES (VASE À BANDES)

Details

A PAIR OF SÈVRES ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLEU NOUVEAU VASES (VASE À BANDES)
CIRCA 1775

Each oviform vase with gadrooned cover and acorn finial, the sides with studded pilasters and laurel garlands, painted in colours with pastoral scenes, the reverse with bouquets and flanked by moulded gilt laurel garlands (both finials restored replacements, rim chips)--14 1/8in. (35.9cm.) high, on later square base with beaded edge (2)

Provenance

A French royal palace (by tradition)
Edward, Viscount Lascelles, prior to his death in 1814
By descent through the family
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood, Christie's London, July 1, 1965, lot 28
With À La Vielle Russie, New York

Literature

Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, p. 396, footnote 3-g

Lot Essay

Sèvres produced the vase à bandes in two variations of shape and two of size. The present pair are examples of the more common Shape A produced between 1769 and 1776 and of the smaller of the two sizes. The variant Shape B which replaces the side projections and garlands with satyr mask handles was in production by 1774.

When the vases were sold in 1965, the painting was attributed to Dodin on the basis of similar vases in the Wallace Collection. Cf. Rosalind Savill, op cit., C318; also The Christner Collection, Christie's New York, June 9, 1979, Vol. III, lot 225 for a similar blue-ground pair painted with putti