Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF FRENCH PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED VASES AND COVERS
Lot 57

A PAIR OF FRENCH PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1755, PERHAPS SCEAUX OR MENNECY

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 3,750

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A PAIR OF FRENCH PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED VASES AND COVERS
CIRCA 1755, PERHAPS SCEAUX OR MENNECY
Applied with garlands of flowers suspended from pink flowerheads, painted with loose flower bouquets and scattered sprigs, the domed covers with flower finials (one cover broken and restored, the other with restored rim chip and finial restuck, rims ground down, chipping to leaves and flower petals)
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high

Specialist note

A soft-paste French porcelain part tea-service applied with similar flowers and attributed tentatively to Sceaux, was sold by Christie's Paris on 16-17 April 2008, lot 352. See Serge Gauthier, Les Porcelainiers du XVIIIe siècle Française, Lausanne, 1964, pp. 135-137 for examples of Mennecy vases with closely related applied and painted flowers and foliage. A pot-pourri vase, attributed to Mennecy, with similar applied flowers and leaves to those on the present lot was sold by Christie's New York on 21 Nov 2008, lot 159. The ground rims of these vases may suggest that they may once have been mounted.