Vases Chinois 1780
Hard paste porcelain, brick red ground, gilded decoration and gilt bronze | .1 38.5 x 15.1 x 12.8, .2 38.4 x 15.1 x 12.9 cm (whole object) | RCIN 36076
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Sèvres hard paste porcelain pair of vases. Brick red ground with gilded decoration, oval body, trumpet shaped mouth with gilded monster head handles raised on two fins, circular stem and foot mounted on gilt bronze plinth. Reserves gilded and painted with chinoiserie figures.
Provenance
Sent on approval for George IV’s ‘inspection and Choice’ by ‘Mr Lafountain,’ whose address was given in his invoice as No.41 rue Traversière; they were landed at Dover and were entered by Benjamin Jutsham in his Carlton House receipts’ ledger on 10 September 1818: ‘[From] the Custom House A Set, 2 Beakers & 1 Jar & Cover. Red ground & Gold. Painted in Figures in Compartments Or Molu Bases. The Beakers 15 Inches high; the Jar 20 Inches. Seve China’. The entry is annotated, ‘these articles are sent to Brighton’. By 1826 the garniture had been returned to Carlton House, when it was recorded in the Anti Room to the Dining Room, Basement Floor: ‘No 91. A Centre Vase of Scarlet and gold Seve Porcelain with Chinese Therm Handles, mounted in ormolu, painted in Chinese Figures and Subjects 20 In. high. No 92. A pair of Slender Jars of Scarlet and gold Seve Porcelain with Chimera handles and ormolu mountings, the painting in Chinese Figures and Subjects – 15 In high’.
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Creator(s)
(porcelain manufacturer)(place of production)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Hard paste porcelain, brick red ground, gilded decoration and gilt bronze
Measurements
.1 38.5 x 15.1 x 12.8, .2 38.4 x 15.1 x 12.9 cm (whole object)
Other number(s)
Laking PC : Laking, G.F., 1907. Sèvres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, London – Laking PC 283Place of Production
Sèvres [France]
