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Lot Essay
Possibly the only extant example of this form, the present glass cooler is almost certainly one of the pair listed in the factory’s sales records as 2 seaux a verre à draperie delivered 7 March 1782 to the Prince of Nassau at cost of 84 livres each or 168 livres for the two. Also noted is their return two years later for reimbursement at the same price: Rendu le 1er Juillet 1784 – 168
On his invoice for the purchase, John Whitehead posits that the gilt white faux-drapery applied to the dark ruby glass cooler may represent the white damask napkin that would have been draped around the body of a silver cooler in order to absorb condensation.
A beau bleu vase 'bouteille en écharpes', its belly similarly draped, is in The Wallace Collection, London, inv. no. C279. Here, the draped fabric is skimpy in comparison with that found on the present seau, but the conceit of two pieces of fabric draped around a curved object, supported at the sides by gilt curtain tiebacks is the same.
Etienne-Henri Le Guay père is recorded at Vincennes-Sèvres at first as a painter specializing in friezes and later as a gilder 1748-49 and again 1751-1797.
On his invoice for the purchase, John Whitehead posits that the gilt white faux-drapery applied to the dark ruby glass cooler may represent the white damask napkin that would have been draped around the body of a silver cooler in order to absorb condensation.
A beau bleu vase 'bouteille en écharpes', its belly similarly draped, is in The Wallace Collection, London, inv. no. C279. Here, the draped fabric is skimpy in comparison with that found on the present seau, but the conceit of two pieces of fabric draped around a curved object, supported at the sides by gilt curtain tiebacks is the same.
Etienne-Henri Le Guay père is recorded at Vincennes-Sèvres at first as a painter specializing in friezes and later as a gilder 1748-49 and again 1751-1797.