Live Auction 1931María Félix: La Doña
A GARNITURE OF FOUR JACOB PETIT PORCELAIN GOLD-GROUND NEO-ROCOCO TOPOGRAPHICAL VASES AND STANDS

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A GARNITURE OF FOUR JACOB PETIT PORCELAIN GOLD-GROUND NEO-ROCOCO TOPOGRAPHICAL VASES AND STANDS
MID 19TH CENTURY, BLUE J.P. MARKS
Each oviform with burnished gold everted mouth, neck, elaborate scroll handles, and flaring foot, the front finely painted with Mexican views of 'Veracruz Veracruz', 'Interior de Mexico', 'Interior de Zacatecas' and 'Plaza Mayor de Mexico', the reverse with other named views, each reserved on the burnished gold ground within chased borders inscribed along the bottom with the name of the scene, on conforming foliate scroll base
20 in. (50.1 cm.) high (8)

Specialist note

Acquired by María Félix on the Paris art market, the present set of four burnished gold-ground topographical vases was described at the time as having been previously owned by Antonio López de Santa Anna, the controvertial Mexican general and polititian who served as president 1841-1844 and 1846-1847. Unfortunately, it is not possible to substantiate this provenance.

The present model was created by Jacob Petit for L'Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie of 1834.

See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, "Jacob Petit, Le plus romantique des porcelainiers parisiens", L'Estampille/Objet d'art, No 311, March 1997, p. 51 for the original design as engraved by Stéphane Flachat for L'Industrie in 1834.