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Lot Essay
Gabriel Rousseau is noted as a painter at the factory from 1761 to 1766.
The vase 'Hollandois nouveau ovale' was first produced in 1758 in five sizes. The upper portion holds the plant in earth and has holes pierced along the lower edge of the deep flange that sits into the stand in order to allow watering from the bottom.
A pair of vases 'Hollandois nouveau ovale' in the Wallace Collection painted with harbor scenes reserved on a bleu lapis vermiculé ground, have the same date letter and painter's mark as that found on the present examples. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain London 1988, no. C-223-224.
Several pairs also with the gilt decoration only on the ground color and no painted scenes on the reverse are known. Among these are an unmarked bleu céleste pair painted with figures in landscapes in the manner of Teniers from the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold Christie's New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 236; and an apple green pair dated 1760 and painted by Viellard with Teniers scenes from the collection of Samuel H. Kress, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. See Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1964, nos. 41a-b, Figs. 155-156.
The vase 'Hollandois nouveau ovale' was first produced in 1758 in five sizes. The upper portion holds the plant in earth and has holes pierced along the lower edge of the deep flange that sits into the stand in order to allow watering from the bottom.
A pair of vases 'Hollandois nouveau ovale' in the Wallace Collection painted with harbor scenes reserved on a bleu lapis vermiculé ground, have the same date letter and painter's mark as that found on the present examples. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain London 1988, no. C-223-224.
Several pairs also with the gilt decoration only on the ground color and no painted scenes on the reverse are known. Among these are an unmarked bleu céleste pair painted with figures in landscapes in the manner of Teniers from the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold Christie's New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 236; and an apple green pair dated 1760 and painted by Viellard with Teniers scenes from the collection of Samuel H. Kress, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. See Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1964, nos. 41a-b, Figs. 155-156.