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Lot Essay
It is likely the present vase and its pair entered the Sèvres sale room on 27 vendemaire XIII (23 October 1804) described as 2 vases Fuseau fond lilas et burgos bouquets de fleurs at a selling price of 150 francs. They are recorded as selling 22 pleuv. XIII (11 February 1805). Payment records note the following costs associated with their facture:
Gilt by (Charles-Marie Pierre) Boitel paid 12 france
Flowers by (Nicolas) Sinesson paid 32 francs
Fond lilas by Godin l'aîné paid 18 francs
Fond burgos paid 3 francs
TOTAL COST PER VASE 65 francs
See Tamara Préaud et al., The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Alexandre Brogniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, exhobition catalogue, The Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 1997, p. 174, no. 9 for the design by Charles-Eloi Asselin for the present model, identical in form, in the shape of the painted panel, in the motifs painted on the ground itself, and in the fact that the ground color of the neck and socle vary from that of the body of the vase but with a classical figure in place of the bouquet.
Gilt by (Charles-Marie Pierre) Boitel paid 12 france
Flowers by (Nicolas) Sinesson paid 32 francs
Fond lilas by Godin l'aîné paid 18 francs
Fond burgos paid 3 francs
TOTAL COST PER VASE 65 francs
See Tamara Préaud et al., The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Alexandre Brogniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, exhobition catalogue, The Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 1997, p. 174, no. 9 for the design by Charles-Eloi Asselin for the present model, identical in form, in the shape of the painted panel, in the motifs painted on the ground itself, and in the fact that the ground color of the neck and socle vary from that of the body of the vase but with a classical figure in place of the bouquet.