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Lot Essay
Another example of the present model, decorated with fleurs encrusté on a bleu 'Fallot' ground, the property of a New England Collector, was sold 26 October 1995, lot 81 and is now in a private European collection. One with a bleu céleste ground painted with harbor scenes by Morin is in the collection of the Petit Palais, Paris. A pair, painted with pastoral scenes on a green ground, previously owned by Mme Victoire is now in the Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. All are dated circa 1771.
See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, vol. I, no. C280 for a pair of ormolu-mounted bottle vases and covers of variant form also decorated with only a ground pattern and dated 1775-1770 and no. C328 for one with panels of flowers and applied with garlands on the same ground.
See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, vol. I, no. C280 for a pair of ormolu-mounted bottle vases and covers of variant form also decorated with only a ground pattern and dated 1775-1770 and no. C328 for one with panels of flowers and applied with garlands on the same ground.