Lot Essay
The most conclusive evidence from the Sèvres archives related to the present examples is a record in 1768 from the Travaux extraordinaires des peintres which records an overtime payment of 24 livres to the painter Couturier, for painting 12 colonnes torses à guirlandes. The sales ledgers in the Sèvres archives record (Vy 4 fol. 150) a delivery to M. Poirier: pendant les 6 premiers mois de l'année 1768/4 colonnes 30 (livres each), 120 (livres in total)
Candlesticks from the Jones collection are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (museum nos. 802-1882, 802a-1882, 798-1882, 798a-1882), see William King, Catalogue of the Jones Collection (London, 1924), Vol. II, pp. 21-22, nos. 155-156, pls. 3 and 25. See also Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, (London, 1968), pp. 282-3, no. 102.
The marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier had a close relationship with the Sèvres factory, he first experimented with mounting Sèvres porcelain plaques on furniture around 1760, and he and his successor Dominique Daguerre enjoyed a virtual monopoly over porcelain plaques intended for furniture.
Claude Couturier was a painter of flowers at Sèvres active from 1762 to 1775 and again in 1783. Jean-Baptiste Tandart l'aîné was a painter of flowers at Vincennes and Sèvres active from 1754 to 1800.
Candlesticks from the Jones collection are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (museum nos. 802-1882, 802a-1882, 798-1882, 798a-1882), see William King, Catalogue of the Jones Collection (London, 1924), Vol. II, pp. 21-22, nos. 155-156, pls. 3 and 25. See also Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, (London, 1968), pp. 282-3, no. 102.
The marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier had a close relationship with the Sèvres factory, he first experimented with mounting Sèvres porcelain plaques on furniture around 1760, and he and his successor Dominique Daguerre enjoyed a virtual monopoly over porcelain plaques intended for furniture.
Claude Couturier was a painter of flowers at Sèvres active from 1762 to 1775 and again in 1783. Jean-Baptiste Tandart l'aîné was a painter of flowers at Vincennes and Sèvres active from 1754 to 1800.