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A SEVRES BEAU BLEU TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM VASE (VASE A RUBAN) OR (VASE A COURONNE)
Lot 148

A SEVRES BEAU BLEU TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM VASE (VASE A RUBAN) OR (VASE A COURONNE)

CIRCA 1770

Closed17 November 2009

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A SEVRES BEAU BLEU TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM VASE (VASE A RUBAN) OR (VASE A COURONNE)
CIRCA 1770
Oviform, with upright scroll handles moulded and richly-gilt with berried laurel, the reeded gilt neck moulded with blue and gilt ribbon, painted with a bare breasted seated mother feeding her sleeping baby, another seated before her and a boy leaning against her left side playing a horn, within a shaped oval cartouche tooled with wave ornament and surmounted with beads and ribbon-tied foliage, the reverse with three entwined garlands of oak leaves, pink roses and pink, yellow, blue and purple roses and other flowers within a lesser cartouche, on a socle moulded with white pearls, supported on a gadrooned foot, within gilt line rims (two short hairline cracks to one handle, minor flaking to gilding at socle and footrim)
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high

The Earl of Harewood; Christie's, London, 1 July 1965.
With John Barry, London, 30 September 1966.

Specialist note

The central scene on the vase is probably painted by Dodin with 'La Trompette' or 'Silence' after the painting by Jean-Baptist Greuze in the Royal Collection. For a similar example of this form see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (London, 1988), Vol. I, cat. no. C269, pp. 240-243. The garlands of flowers on the reverse of the present lot are similar to those on a pair of Vase à Panneaux or Vase à Perles in the Royal Collection, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Tandart L'aîné, where it is noted that Tandart was paid 300 livres for 100 cartouches painted with wreaths in 1767 on a variety of pieces, see Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (London, 2009), Vol. I, pp. 256-261.