Vase de Saigon

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Vase de Saigon
signed 'Rodin' (at the centre); inscribed with the potter's mark and dated 'AD 12 98 PN' and printed in black with the 1899 Sèvres factory mark 'S. 99' (on the underside)
yellow glazed Sèvres pâte nouvelle porcelain
Height: 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.)
Original version executed in 1882-1887; this porcelain version executed in 1898 and glazed in 1899

Provenance

The Jules Mastbaum Family Collection; sale, Christie's New York, 8 November 1995, lot 155.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 30 (another vase illustrated p. 33).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, no. 1121 (another vase illustrated p. 149).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

In 1879 Rodin was invited by Albert Carrier-Belleuse, the director of the Manufacture de Sèvres porcelain works, to design decorations for vases. In the three years he worked there he produced 18 vases, taking his decorative inspiration from the pagan idylls of Correggio, Proud'hon and Watteau.

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