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Pot-pourri vase and cover

Sèvres porcelain factory1758 - 1759

Royal Collection Trust, UK

Royal Collection Trust, UK
London, United Kingdom

For many admirers of Sèvres porcelain, the pot-pourri à vaisseau represents the height of sophistication and a remarkable combination at the factory of the technical mastery of the repareurs and the skill of the painters and gilders. The vase, the largest of the three models of this shape produced at Sèvres, is decorated with two ground colours, green and dark blue. Boat-shaped with out-turned feet with either end tapering in the form of a stump of bowsprit emerging from the jaws of marine monsters. The lid is formed by pierced rigging encircled by a fluttering white pennant decorated with gilded fleur-de-lis. The front reserve depicts a polychrome genre tavern scene taken from an unknown source and inspired by David Teniers the Younger (1610-90). The reverse reserve depicts a posy of flowers.

Details

  • Title: Pot-pourri vase and cover
  • Creator: Sèvres porcelain factory
  • Creator Nationality: French
  • Date Created: 1758 - 1759
  • Physical Dimensions: w378 x h551 x d193 mm
  • Type: Ceramics
  • Rights: Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / (c) HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012
  • External Link: http://www.rct.uk/collection/2360
  • Medium: Soft-paste porcelain, ground of bleu lapis and green overlaid with gilded œil-de-perdrix decoration, further gilding and gilt bronze
  • Provenance: The vase was purchased in 1759 at the end-of-year sale at Versailles by Madame de Pompadour for 960 livres. Madame de Pompadour is known to have owned three examples of this model; these formed important components of her sumptuously appointed apartments. Later acquired by George IV.

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