Lot 6
6
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POT-POURRI VASE (VASE A MONTER)
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POT-POURRI VASE (VASE A MONTER)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER U FOR 1773, PAINTER'S MARK FOR COUTURIER AND GILDER'S MARK FOR BOULANGER, THE ORMOLU OF A SIMILAR DATE

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE POT-POURRI VASE (VASE A MONTER)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER U FOR 1773, PAINTER'S MARK FOR COUTURIER AND GILDER'S MARK FOR BOULANGER, THE ORMOLU OF A SIMILAR DATE
Of tapering cylindrical form, the guilloche-pierced neck flanked by paired foliate handles with berried terminals, the body painted with rose sprigs within gilt vine surrounds, the fluted foot with a laurel-band, on a shaped square base, cover lacking
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Madame Lucienne Fribourg Collection; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19 April 1969, lot 55.
With The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8-9 December, 1989, lot 49.

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Lot Essay

The Sèvres factory produced vases à monter, or vases intended to be fitted with ormolu mounts, from circa 1764. The main three forms of such vases assembled into garnitures were tapering cylindrical (of two differing dimensions), such as the present pair, and egg-shaped. These finished glazed vases were sold largely to marchand-merciers who then embellished them with mounts.

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