DATED 1825 AND 1834, STENCILLED GREY CIRCULAR SEVRES AND STAR MARK FOR 1834, GREEN DECORATING DATE MARK 22 MS 25 E FOR 1825, GILDER'S MARK FOR 1834, BASE INCISED D X, INCISED 2 TO INTERIOR

A pair of vases of the same form and decoration are listed in the 1839 inventory of the Grand Trianon, where they were kept in the apartments occupied until 1845 by the King and Queen of Belgium during their stays at Versailles. The pair are subsequently listed in the inventories of the Petit Trianon, in the salon de famille in 1855 and the chapel in 1894. See Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et objets d'art, Paris, 1975, p. 102 (middle) for an illustration of one of the pair with Trianon inventory marks. Although it does not bear any royal inventory numbers, the present example may be one of a number of vases of this type commissioned during the reign of King Louis-Philippe of France to be housed in the Grand Trianon. It is possible that this piece may have been amongst pieces of porcelain sold from the royal collection during the Third Republic, the details of which are undocumented.