A VINCENNES LARGE POT-POURRI VASE (pot pourri Pompadour) and a cover, the shoulders with puce and gilt foliage scrolls with harebells suspending sprays of flowers including wood anemones, cornflowers and grasses between seven pierced holes moulded with gilt cartouches, palm fronds and flowerheads above shaded puce, blue and gilt tapering pilasters the centres with a ribbon threaded with flowerheads and the foliage scroll capitals suspending a continuous looped garland of fantastic garden flowers and foliage including, roses, narcissus, tulips, cornflowers, anenomes, peonies and hyacinths, the spreading foot with a similar flower garland within a puce striped band tied with blue ribbons and foliage, gilt line rims (crack to top rim extending approximately 19cm., broken from base and repaired, extended crack around foot, inside flange under base broken and repaired, minute chip to rim), elaborate blue interlaced L marks with three dots, circa 1752, the cover a later replacement and perhaps Tournai

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A VINCENNES LARGE POT-POURRI VASE (pot pourri Pompadour) and a cover, the shoulders with puce and gilt foliage scrolls with harebells suspending sprays of flowers including wood anemones, cornflowers and grasses between seven pierced holes moulded with gilt cartouches, palm fronds and flowerheads above shaded puce, blue and gilt tapering pilasters the centres with a ribbon threaded with flowerheads and the foliage scroll capitals suspending a continuous looped garland of fantastic garden flowers and foliage including, roses, narcissus, tulips, cornflowers, anenomes, peonies and hyacinths, the spreading foot with a similar flower garland within a puce striped band tied with blue ribbons and foliage, gilt line rims (crack to top rim extending approximately 19cm., broken from base and repaired, extended crack around foot, inside flange under base broken and repaired, minute chip to rim), elaborate blue interlaced L marks with three dots, circa 1752, the cover a later replacement and perhaps Tournai
the vase 32cm. high (2)

來源

The 6th Earl of Rosebery, sale Sotheby's Mentmore, 24 May 1977, lot 2008

拍品專文

This shape was produced in four sizes of which this is the largest, only this size has moulded gilt flowerheads below the pierced holes, a drawing for the model is preserved in the archives at Sèvres see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, pp. 127-135 for a full discussion of this shape

Cf. a violet ground pair in the Sèvres Museum, formerly at Mentmore, illustrated Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, no. 52; another, also from Mentmore, sold Sotheby's, 24 May 1977, lot 2007; another sold in these Rooms, 6 April 1981, lot 24; and another at Dalmeny House illustrated Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, ibid., pp. 31 & 98