1752, ELABORATE BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING TWO DOTS AND SURMOUNTED BY A DOT AND SUNBURST, INCISED B

细节

A Vincennes ewer (pot à la Romaine à ornements)
1752, elaborate blue interlaced L's enclosing two dots and surmounted by a dot and sunburst, incised B
Of baluster form with blue and gilt-edged foliage-moulded panels painted with trailing garden flowers flanked by two groups of flowers and musical trophies and with scattered insects and a dragonfly, the gilt-edged shaped lip with two groups of trailing flowers, on a foliate spirally-moulded blue feuilles-de-choux foot edged with gilt lines, the blue and gilt scroll handle rising from moulded gilt bulrushes (crack to foot and cracked round lower part of body at top of foot and riveted through centre)
9½ in. (24 cm.) high

注意事项

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拍品专文

See Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (1968), pp. 52 for a discussion of the author of the form (and for a similar bleu celeste example). Eriksen points out that there is a label attached to the plaster model at Sèvres which is inscribed Pot à l'Eau Duplessis, but at the time it was not known if this was the name by which this form would have been known in the 18th Century. Since then, the date of the conception of this shape by Jean-Claude Duplessis has been confirmed by an extract from a letter, dated 26th October 1751, from Hendrick van Hulst to Boileau; "...je n'ai nulle idée de la forme que le petit croquis indique des pots à la romaine de M. du Plessis..." For a discussion of this see Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes (Paris 1991), p. 128. In the list of moulds contained in the stock list of October 1752, the moulds for this shape were valued at 10 livres, in comparision with other moulds this was a very high price. Ewers and basins in biscuit were valued at 27 livres and decorated they sold for prices ranging from 144 to 480 livres.

See the ewer of similar form sold in these Rooms on 28th June 1993, lot 4. A very similar example was in the collection of the Marquis de Vogué illustrated by Garnier, La Porcelaine tendre de Sèvres, Paris 1889, pl. 4 and another sold by Sotheby's on 12th June 1984, lot 169. See Tamara Préaud and Antoine d'Albis, ibid. (Paris 1991), p. 128, no. 55 (and p. 58 for a colour plate); Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, no. 98a & b for a bleu celeste example in the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg.