Live Auction 16115The Collector: English & European Furniture, Fine Art, Ceramics & Silver
A SEVRES PORCELAIN VASE FITTED WITH FLOWERS (CUVETTE A FLEUR 'ROUSSEL')
Lot 96 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 86-141)

A SEVRES PORCELAIN VASE FITTED WITH FLOWERS (CUVETTE A FLEUR 'ROUSSEL')

CIRCA 1763, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER'S MARK FOR THEVENET PERE, INCISED ND, THE ORMOLU 20TH CENTURY

Closed10 April 2018

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN VASE FITTED WITH FLOWERS (CUVETTE A FLEUR 'ROUSSEL')
CIRCA 1763, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER'S MARK FOR THEVENET PERE, INCISED ND, THE ORMOLU 20TH CENTURY
The serpentine oval vase painted with frises riches and fitted with porcelain flowers on gilt tole stems
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high overall

The Collection of John T. Dorrance, Jr.; Sotheby's, New York, 20-21 October 1989, lot 174 (described with the traditional title of a cuvette à fleurs ‘Verdun’).

Specialist note

Louis-Jean Thévenet père, is recorded at both Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns, 1741-1777.

In a paper delivered to The French Porcelain Society on 17 June 2014, Cyrill Froissart convincingly reassigned the names of several vases found in the Sèvres factory records to other shapes. The form of the present cuvette or horizontal flower pot (jardinière), traditionally called a cuvette à fleurs ‘Verdun’, is now recognized as corresponding to a cuvette ‘Roussel’. For a detailed discussion of the detective work that led to this and two other re-attributions, see C. Froissart, Des Cuvettes Démasqués, pp. 1-40.