THE PORCELAIN DATED 1777, THE HARBOR PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO J.-B.-E. GENEST, THE WREATHS LIKELY BY J.-F. MICAUD, THE ORMOLU LOUIS XVI AND APPARENTLY ORIGINAL

A green-ground vase of the same date, form and painted subject by Genest, but with a variant gilding pattern, was formerly in the E.M. Hodgkins collection, Paris (no. 38). It was purchased by Henry Walters in 1928 and now resides in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (accession no. 48.615). Other examples include the blue-ground vase 'étrusque' sold Christie's, Paris, 17 December 2009, lot 52; and the cobalt-blue pair and single example painted with encampment scenes in the English Royal Collection (see G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2009, pp. 305-11, nos. 66 and 67). For a discussion of the form and an image of its plaster model, see R. Savill, op. cit., p. 351-353.
Jean- Baptiste-Etienne Genest is recorded as the chief of painters at the Sèvres manufactory from 1752-88. Jacques-François Micaud père is recorded as a painter of flowers and patterns at the manufactory from 1757-1810.