Live Auction 16185A Love Affair with France: The Elizabeth Stafford Collection
A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS (VASES ‘ALLEMANDS UNIS’ ET COUVERCLES)
Lot 1101

A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS (VASES ‘ALLEMANDS UNIS’ ET COUVERCLES)

CIRCA 1770-75, BOTH INCISED WITH A C AND BACKWARDS C, ONE ALSO WITH AN INCISED I AND N

Closed1 November 2018

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS (VASES ‘ALLEMANDS UNIS’ ET COUVERCLES)
CIRCA 1770-75, BOTH INCISED WITH A C AND BACKWARDS C, ONE ALSO WITH AN INCISED I AND N
Each with a band of elongated 'pearls' at the rim, the stop fluted neck alternate with pin-prick decoration, finely painted to one side with a harbor scene in the manner of Charles Morin, the obverse with a pastoral scene, flanked by pierced upright scroll handles, the lower body alternating gilt and gilt ciselé gadroons, on a conforming base
7 3/8 in. (18.6 cm.) high; 8 ¾ in. (22.1 cm.) wide, overall

Baron Gustave de Rothschild.
Baroness Renée de Becker, New York.
With Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York.
Henry Ford II; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 February 1978, lot 42.

Specialist note

A pair of green-ground vases of the same form and painted by Dodin are in the Wallace Collection, see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. I, London, 1988, pp. 263-266.