A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU VASE AND COVER (VASE 'A ANSES CARREES') AND ORMOLU STAND

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU VASE AND COVER (VASE 'A ANSES CARREES') AND ORMOLU STAND

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770-1775, INCISED B, THE PAINTING POSSIBLY BY NICHOLAS DODIN, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1820-1840

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU VASE AND COVER (VASE 'A ANSES CARREES') AND ORMOLU STAND
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770-1775, INCISED B, THE PAINTING POSSIBLY BY NICHOLAS DODIN, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1820-1840
Painted to one side with Venus recumbent as Cupid hands her a wreath of roses, the reverse with a floral swag, flanked by bracket handles suspending gilt laurel, on a gadrooned lower body and wreath-molded socle, the shaped-square ormolu base with foliate scrollwork and acanthus
17½ in. (44.4 cm.) high, overall (3)

Provenance

P.A.B. Widener Collection, Philadelphia; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 June 1974, lot 148.
The Christner Collection; Christie's, New York, 30 November-1 December 1979, lot 230.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 March 1990, lot 85.
Property of Armin Brand Allen; Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 1995, lot 307.

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Lot Essay

This form is first referenced in the Sèvres archives in 1768. In 1771 the listed value of the model was 156 livres, though the sales records note a pair sold to Madame Victoire for 864 livres on 18 September 1773. For a pair of vases of this form, possibly the pair owned by Mme. Victoire, in the collection of Queen Elizabeth II, see. G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. I, London, 2009, pp. 335-336, no. 74.

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