Lot 201
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AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE BEAU BLEU VASES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE')
AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE BEAU BLEU VASES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE')
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AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE BEAU BLEU VASES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE')

THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR L.-J. THEVENET PERE, THE VASES OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE, THE MOUNTS DIRECTOIRE, CIRCA 1795

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AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE BEAU BLEU VASES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE')
THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR L.-J. THEVENET PERE, THE VASES OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE, THE MOUNTS DIRECTOIRE, CIRCA 1795
Comprising two laurel-draped beau bleu urns with gadrooned necks, flanked by either partially or entirely gilt scroll handles, on a pair of tapering bleu lapis square pedestals painted with pendant flower garlands
10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection Alphonse de Rothschild.
Collection Edmond de Rothschild, no. 484.
Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 4475 a, b).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the ‘Lager Peter’ salt mines, Alt Aussee, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 615/1), 24 June 1945.
Repatriated to France, 19 September 1946.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 March 1979, lot 227.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25-26 October 1994, lot 261.
The Valentine Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2005, lot 114.
Literature
Édouard Garnier, The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres, pl. XLIV.

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Lot Essay

Pedestals such as these were normally sold in pairs to support small biscuit portrait busts. Cf. R. Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, London 1988, vol. I, nos. C234-8. Also compare the green example in the Frick Collection, New York (accesssion no. 1990.9.52).
Louis-Jean Thévenet père is recorded as a painter of flowers and patterns at the manufactory from 1741-77.
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