CIRCA 1760 - 1770, THE SAVONNERIE PANEL PROBABLY BY PIERRE-CHARLES OR NICOLAS CYPRIEN DUVIVIER, AFTER HENRI-HORACE ROLAND DE LAPORTE

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A LOUIS XV SAVONNERIE PANEL OF A STILL LIFE
CIRCA 1760 - 1770, THE SAVONNERIE PANEL PROBABLY BY PIERRE-CHARLES OR NICOLAS CYPRIEN DUVIVIER, AFTER HENRI-HORACE ROLAND DE LAPORTE
Depicting a still life of an ormolu-mounted blue Chinese porcelain vase, a globe, books and musical scores scattered across a table top, a tasseled curtain behind, the associated frame carved with C-scrolls and husks on a hatched ground, the frame reduced in size to fit the Savonnerie panel and rebacked
43½ in. (110 cm.) high, 34½ in. (87.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Alexander Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 30 April 1999, lot 94.

Lot Essay

This Savonnerie panel is directly inspired by the painting entitled 'Vase de lapis, sphère et musette', executed by Henri-Horace Roland de Laporte for his admission to the Paris Académie in 1763.

An identical panel, now in the Musée des arts décoratifs, Lyon, is attributed to the Duvivier's in P. Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, The Savonnerie, London, 1982, p. 314, fig. 191.

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