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Lot Essay
By 1752, this form was produced in four sizes. Described in the factory’s records as a broc ordinaire when sold without a cover and a broc couvert when sold with one, the present jug is an example of the third size (S. Eriksen and G. De Bellaigue, op. cit., p. 232).
Between 1752 and 1760 about 29 examples were produced costing between 48 livres for a jug with flowers to 168 livres for an example with a blue-ground and gilding.
In her recent publication, Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 226, fig.9.7, Dame Rosalind Savill illustrates a larger broc ordinaire without a cover painted with fleurs détachées similar to those on the present example purchased by Madame de Pompadour in 1752. The present gold-mounted example is absolutely the marquise’s taste but it has not been possible to identify a corresponding entry in Lazard Duvaux’s Livre Journal, the marchand mercier having been the source for gold mounts on many of her Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain acquisitions and thus the likely source of the gold hinge found on it.
For a full discussion of this form see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 695-6. A slightly larger example of the second size without a cover but painted with similar bouquets was sold Christie’s, London, Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes, 26 November 2014, lot 82. See also the larger example in the Forsyth Wickes Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession number 65.1871) and that in the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, illustrated by Marcelle Brunet et Tamara Préaud, Sèvres Des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 148, no. 74.
Between 1752 and 1760 about 29 examples were produced costing between 48 livres for a jug with flowers to 168 livres for an example with a blue-ground and gilding.
In her recent publication, Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 226, fig.9.7, Dame Rosalind Savill illustrates a larger broc ordinaire without a cover painted with fleurs détachées similar to those on the present example purchased by Madame de Pompadour in 1752. The present gold-mounted example is absolutely the marquise’s taste but it has not been possible to identify a corresponding entry in Lazard Duvaux’s Livre Journal, the marchand mercier having been the source for gold mounts on many of her Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain acquisitions and thus the likely source of the gold hinge found on it.
For a full discussion of this form see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp. 695-6. A slightly larger example of the second size without a cover but painted with similar bouquets was sold Christie’s, London, Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes, 26 November 2014, lot 82. See also the larger example in the Forsyth Wickes Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession number 65.1871) and that in the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, illustrated by Marcelle Brunet et Tamara Préaud, Sèvres Des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 148, no. 74.