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A SEVRES BEAU BLEU VERMICULE FLOWER VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'COURTEILLE', 3EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1760

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A SEVRES BEAU BLEU VERMICULE FLOWER VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'COURTEILLE', 3EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1760
Of bombé oval form with applied foliate handles 'growing' up the sides, on four snail-scroll feet, painted after Teniers with a family in a garden outside a tavern, a man drinking from a tankard at the left, reserved within a tooled gilt band on the overglaze beau bleu ground further gilt with richly tooled foliate scrolls, the ends and back gilt overall with vermiculé
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high; 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) long

Lot Essay

The present vase is an example of smallest of the three sizes in which the model was produced. A pair of the same size and shape, also painted with scenes after Teniers but on a green ground, is in the Wallace Collection. Factory records show that vases of this size and decoration were sold both in pairs and as part of a garniture at a cost of 240 livres each. The present example with its enameled blue ground likely cost a similar amount. See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, pp. 42-55 for a detailed discussion of the model, the various permutations in which it was sold, and other known examples, including several unmarked examples painted with Teniers scenes (p. 55, footnote 44).

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