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A pair of Sèvres gilt-metal mounted pots-pourris vases and covers (pots-pourris Pompadour 4ème grandeur), the porcelain Louis XV, circa 1762, the gilt base possibly later

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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

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25,000 - 35,000 EUR

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A pair of Sèvres gilt-metal mounted pots-pourris vases and covers (pots-pourris Pompadour 4ème grandeur), the porcelain Louis XV, circa 1762, the gilt base possibly later

vases 'pots-pourris Pompadour' each pierced around the shoulder with six foliate scroll- and rocaille-edged openings above a frize colorée border suspending flower garlands, the covers similarly pierced and with floral knops

height 8¼in.; width 8⅛in.; 21 cm; 20,6 cm.

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Paire de vases pots-pourris en porcelaine de Sèvres, métal doré avec leurs couvercles (pots-pourris Pompadour 4ème grandeur), d'époque Louis XV vers 1762, (les bases dorées probablement rapportées)

height 8¼in.; width 8⅛in.; 21 cm; 20,6 cm.

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Probably purchased by Marquise de Pompadour in December 1761;

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 May 1931, lot 97;

Sotheby's London, The Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, 10 March 1999, lot 389;

Sotheby's New York, The Collection of Carl De Santis, 4 November 2011, lot 303.

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Probablement acheté par Marquise de Pompadour en décembre 1761;

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 mai 1931, lot 97;

Sotheby's Londres, The Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, 10 mars 1999, lot 389;

Sotheby's New York, The Collection of Carl De Santis, 4 novembre 2011, lot 303.

R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. I, 1988, pp. 127-335., nos. C239-40;
R. Savill, Everyday Rococo Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. 2, 2021, p. 900, fig. 181.11.

The pot-pourri vases are very probably the ones Madame de Pompadour purchased, together with a flower vase, cuvette Mahon, as a garniture on the 24 December 1761. The pot-pourri cost 192 livres each and the cuvette Mahon cost 168 livres, see Savill, op.cit., p. 894, 902. The cuvette Mahon and present vases were sold in the same lot at Hôtel Drouot in 1931 and were subsequently separated. The cuvette Mahon later entered the Collection of Mrs. Alan L. Corey, New York and Glen Head, sold, Replica Shoes Parke Bernet, New York, 5-6 December 1974, lot 70; and the Collection of Mrs. John W. Christner, Dallas, sold, Christie's New York, 1 December 1979, lot 178. It sold again at Replica Shoes 's New York, 26th November 1985, lot 117. It is now in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, acc. no. 1990.42. From 1974 the cuvette had been sold with an identical example dated 1776.

First appearing in the factory sales records in 1752, the model for this shape vase was designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis and was made in four versions and sizes, of which the present example is the smallest. A pair of 'pot pourri Pompadour' of the third size is illustrated by Rosalind Savill, Opus cit.