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Lot Essay
The Sèvres factory produced vases à monter, or vases intended to be fitted with ormolu mounts, beginning in around 1764. These finished glazed vases were sold largely to marchand-merciers who then embellished them with mounts. The earlier vases were glazed in solid ground colors, although invoices exist for pieces decorated with green and blue grounds scattered with foliate wreaths centered by roses by 1770.
These vases or goblets cloches display mounts of one of five basic styles. This indicates in all likelihood that the marchand-merciers who purchased the vases à monter produced their own signature mounts. A complete garniture incorporating a pair of egg-form vases, a pair of small cylindrical and one large cylindrical vase is in the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford (Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, p. 156, fig. 74). The current pair represent the same form of vases as those in the Wadsworth Atheneum garniture. A three piece garniture including a pair of vases of the same model, with identical mounts, formerly in the collection of Mme. Jules Fribourg, are illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, 1974, p. 363, fig. 242. Eriksen refers to an identical pair of vases, part of a garniture and bearing the date letter 'q' for 1769, sold in the Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild sale, Berlin, 23 March 1931, lot 206.
These vases or goblets cloches display mounts of one of five basic styles. This indicates in all likelihood that the marchand-merciers who purchased the vases à monter produced their own signature mounts. A complete garniture incorporating a pair of egg-form vases, a pair of small cylindrical and one large cylindrical vase is in the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford (Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, p. 156, fig. 74). The current pair represent the same form of vases as those in the Wadsworth Atheneum garniture. A three piece garniture including a pair of vases of the same model, with identical mounts, formerly in the collection of Mme. Jules Fribourg, are illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, 1974, p. 363, fig. 242. Eriksen refers to an identical pair of vases, part of a garniture and bearing the date letter 'q' for 1769, sold in the Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild sale, Berlin, 23 March 1931, lot 206.