PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION

A PAIR OF SEVRES MINIATURE URNES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S AND DATE LETTER G FOR 1759, PAINTER'S MARK FOR THÉVENET PÈRE TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE PEDESTALS

Details

A PAIR OF SEVRES MINIATURE URNES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE')
Blue interlaced L's and date letter G for 1759, painter's mark for Thévenet père to the underside of the pedestals
The laurel-draped beau bleu urns with gadrooned necks, on tapering bleu lapis square pedestals painted in colors with flower garlands
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high overall (2)

Provenance

Collection Alfonse de Rothschild.
Collection Edmond de Rothschild.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 March 1979, lot 22
Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 25-26 October 1994, lot 261

Literature

Edouard Garnier, Le Porcelaine Tendre de Sèvres, Plate XLIV

Lot Essay

Pedestals such as these were normally sold in pairs to support small biscuit portrait busts. Cf. Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, London 1988, vol. I, nos. C234-8.

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