A MINTON TURQUOISE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE AND COVER

CIRCA 1860, PRINTED PUCE CROWN AND ERMINE MARK, INCISED 36

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A MINTON TURQUOISE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE AND COVER
Circa 1860, printed puce crown and ermine mark, incised 36
After the Sèvres Urn 'Pompadour', with waisted domed cover and carnation finial, the vase painted front and back with a putto frolicking in clouds within an oval foliate surround, beneath a garland of flowers and set on a shaped band alternating with ribbon-tied baskets of flowers, the cover, lower body and spreading foot gilt with a wreath of fruiting oak leaves
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Although the vase 'Pompadour' was made in four sizes after a design by Jean-Claude Duplessis, père, only the two smaller sizes were made at Sèvres without a pierced shoulder for pot pourri.

See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, pp. 127-135 for a detailed discussion of the model and known variations in its design.

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