THE VASES CIRCA 1750, THE COVERS 19TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY WITH THE VASES

Possibly unique survivors, the form and decoration of these vases is in keeping with the naturalistic inspiration behind the factory's production circa 1735-1740. See Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1996, p. 93 for the figure of a Pagode seated on a tree stump naturalistically modeled, painted brown, and applied with flowers, also p. 95 for the pair of Runraku seated before tree stumps applied with European flowers, and p. 366 for a pair of silver-mounted Chantilly white flower-encrusted tobacco jars and covers in the collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, the mounts closely similar to those on the present vases.