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Lot Essay
The present cuvette à fleurs 'Courteille' is an example of the smallest of the three sizes in which the model was produced. A pair of the same size and shape, also painted with scenes after David Teniers the Younger but on a green ground, is in the Wallace Collection. A cuvette à fleurs 'Verdun', 2ème grandeur and a gobelet et soucoupe 'enfoncé' also in the Wallace Collection, feature the same mother seated with a baby in her lap found on the present example, the scene found in Teniers paintings in the Prado and the Louvre dated 1645-1652.
Factory records show that vases of this size and decoration were sold both in pairs and as part of a garniture at a cost of 240 livres each. The present example with its enameled blue ground likely cost a similar amount.
See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, cat. nos. C208-209, C227 and C442 and pp. 42-55 for the pieces mentioned above as well as a detailed discussion of the model, the various permutations in which it was sold, and other known examples, including several unmarked examples painted with Teniers scenes (p. 55, footnote 44).
Factory records show that vases of this size and decoration were sold both in pairs and as part of a garniture at a cost of 240 livres each. The present example with its enameled blue ground likely cost a similar amount.
See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. I, cat. nos. C208-209, C227 and C442 and pp. 42-55 for the pieces mentioned above as well as a detailed discussion of the model, the various permutations in which it was sold, and other known examples, including several unmarked examples painted with Teniers scenes (p. 55, footnote 44).