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TWO JACOB PETIT PORCELAIN RETICULATED GREEN-GROUND POT POURRI VASES AU CHEVAUX MARINS

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TWO JACOB PETIT PORCELAIN RETICULATED GREEN-GROUND POT POURRI VASES AU CHEVAUX MARINS
MID 19TH CENTURY, BLUE J.P. MARKS, PROBABLY PAINTED BY DARTE FRERES
Each square tub with pierced gilt gallery, the sides painted with panels of rich bouquets within shell-molded surrounds, each canted corner supported on a winged hippocampus above a paired scroll foot
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

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; also Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelain de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe Siècles, 1995, p. 309, fig. 292; and anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 20 April 2006, lot 414 for a single example with its cover.