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Vase à pied de globe or vase chinois c. 1770

Soft paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground, gilded decoration and gilt bronze | 74.5 x 35.2 x 21.6 cm (with fittings) | RCIN 2298

White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace

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  • Sèvres soft paste porcelain pot pourri vase and cover. Bleu nouveau ground overlaid with œil de perdrix gilded decoration, tubular shape body with gilt bronze foliate handles and bell-shaped cover decorated with laurel husks and an oak leaf and acorn finial. Oval reserves painted with a polychrome quayside scene to the front and flowers on the reverse. The addition of the gilt bronze mounts was clealy made many years after the vase and cover had been completed at Sèvres. Porcelain rings, which were attached to the tops of the shafts on either side of the cradle, have been removed in order to accommodate the handles. Adapted from the catalogue entry in French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, G. de Bellaigue, London 2009
    Provenance

    The provenance of this object is not certain. It may be Lot 177 in the sale of stock by dealer Philippe-Claude Mäelrondt, held in Paris on 15 November 1824. Lot 177 was bought by the dealer Berton père for 970 francs. The measurements match; the painted decoration is the same and there are parallels in some of the mounts. However, the gilt bronze masks mentioned in the sale catalogue are missing from the vase. If it is accepted that this discrepancy is due to an error on the part of the cataloguer - masks are not mentioned in the Mäelrondt's inventory after death - this vase can be plausibly identified as Lot 177 in the sale catalogue. Earliest record of this vase in the Royal Collection dates from 1907.

  • Medium and techniques

    Soft paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground, gilded decoration and gilt bronze

    Measurements

    74.5 x 35.2 x 21.6 cm (with fittings)

    62.5 x 35.2 x 21.6 cm (parts .a and .b together)

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  • Place of Production

    Sèvres [France]


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