CIRCA 1762, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING AN INDISTINCT DATE LETTER (PROBABLY I), THE PAINTING BY J.B. NOUALHIER L'AINE

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU LAPIS' FLOWER VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS 'ROUSSEL')
CIRCA 1762, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING AN INDISTINCT DATE LETTER (PROBABLY I), THE PAINTING BY J.B. NOUALHIER L'AINE
Of shaped oval form with molded rocaille scroll handles at each end, the front painted with flowers and fruit in an oval reserve on a field of cell-pattern vermiculé enclosing flowerheads, the sides and reverse with free-form vermiculé, the scroll handles reserved in white
13 in. (33 cm.) wide

Provenance

Collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone; Christie's, New York, 25 October 1991, lot 32.

Sale Room Notice

Please note the flower painting on this vase is by Jean-Baptiste Noualhier l’âiné.

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Lot Essay

In a paper delivered to The French Porcelain Society on 17 June 2014, Cyrille Froissart convincingly reassigned the names of several vases found in the Sèvres factory records to other shapes. The form of the present cuvette or horizontal flower vase (jardinière), traditionally called a cuvette à fleurs ‘Verdun’, is now recognized as corresponding to a cuvette 'Roussel'. For a detailed discussion of the detective work that led to this and two other re-attributions, see C. Froissart, Des Cuvettes Démasqués, pp. 1-40.

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