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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN APPLE-GREEN AND BLEU LAPIS 'CAILLOUTE' TWO-HANDLED VASE (VASE A FLEURS 'MARMET')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER F FOR 1758-1759, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CORNAILLES, THE MOUNT 18TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN APPLE-GREEN AND BLEU LAPIS 'CAILLOUTE' TWO-HANDLED VASE (VASE A FLEURS 'MARMET')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter F for 1758-1759, painter's mark for Cornailles, the mount 18th century
Of hexagonal pear-shape with trumpet neck and flared footrim, painted with flower garlands reserved on the gilt caillouté bleu lapis ground within gilt enriched green feuille-de-choux scrolls suspending harebells, the interior of the mouth with a gilt diaper band, set on a bronze doré rocaille foot
8 in. (21.3cm.) high

Provenance

Collection René Fribourg; Sotheby & Co., London, 25 June 1963, lot 56
The Christner Collection; Christie's, New York, 30 November - 1 December 1979, lot 200
A Mid-Western Collector; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 153

Lot Essay

A vase with identical decoration in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is likely the pair to the present vase. From the Grandjean Collection, it is illustrated by Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, des origines à nos jours, Paris, 1978, p. 151, no. 82, where the entry notes that the original drawing in the Sèvres manufactory bears the inscription Demande par Mons. Marmé 1717 2 piesse a anssé première et seconde grandeur.

Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles, is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers and as a gilder, 1755-1800.

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