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Lot Essay
André-Vincent Viellard père is recorded as a painter of figures, landscapes, trophies, patterns and flowers at the manufactory from 1752-90. During the early years of his career, he was one of the factory's principle painters of Boucher children such as those found on the present vases. At this stage, his painting shows how closely he had examined the work of the decorators at Meissen, particularly in the creation of aerial perspective in the layers of green to blue trees as they recede into the distance.
The scenes of the little girl with fruit and the little boy with a pipe painted on the present vases recur on a pair of vase 'Hollandois' in the Musée national de céramique, Sèvres of 1754 painted in camaïeu bleu and enriched with flesh tints. See Tamara Praud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, no. 201.
Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis (1699-1774) is recorded as the designer for the form, vase 'pot pourri Pompadour'.
The scenes of the little girl with fruit and the little boy with a pipe painted on the present vases recur on a pair of vase 'Hollandois' in the Musée national de céramique, Sèvres of 1754 painted in camaïeu bleu and enriched with flesh tints. See Tamara Praud and Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, no. 201.
Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis (1699-1774) is recorded as the designer for the form, vase 'pot pourri Pompadour'.