15929997050001312637261000Standard Recordobject-82542170197576154616098609870001701975718089fitz-onlineadlib-object-82542https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82542c8da53d3-f05a-3a6c-8814-fa7b99a85d764referenceagent-174511adlib-agent-17451108f45d1a-fd5c-3b6b-8c5f-a05374801845Duke of Kentreferenceagent-178544adlib-agent-1785444038e927-d2b6-3fab-be3f-3b3906f0c125Pompadour, Madame dereferenceterm-37637adlib-term-3763789b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecbsoft-paste porcelainbluereferenceterm-32638adlib-term-3263897b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2benamelreferenceterm-39593adlib-term-39593e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312dgoldDecorationin blue enamelreferenceterm-106226adlib-term-106226194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815paintingreferenceterm-28681adlib-term-28681c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559gildingDiametercm10.2FootHeightcm24Over Coverreferenceterm-115adlib-term-11594d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8NatureApplied ArtsSoft-paste porcelain with pierced shoulders and cover, painted in blue enamel with sprays of flowers, and gildedSoft-paste porcelain painted in blue enamel and gilding. The vase stands on a circular pedestal foot. The ovoid body contracts above the widest point to the circular mouth thus forming a shoulder. The domed cover is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a large and a small carnation on a stem. The shoulder of the vase, and the cover, are each pierced with six oval apertures surrounded by stylised foliage in low relief. The shoulder of the vase is at a slightly lower level that the rest of the body and is divided from it by a gold band with curves below the apertures. The white ground is decorated with sprays of flowers in blue enamel, and the carnation finial is touched with blue. There are two bands of gilding round the foot and serrated bands round the junction of the foot and body and round the lip and on the edge of the cover. The moulding round the apertures and the stem of the finial are gilded.
A pair with C.13.1 & A-1947.C.13.2 & A-19471accession numberC.13.2 & A-194782542priref82542urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82542https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82542interlaced L's enclosing A with a crown aboveon base of vase in centrepainted in blue enamelfactory markon base of vaseincised3incised markreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumGiven by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceagent-149645adlib-agent-14964510925b71-6838-30f7-a8dd-b68a2afaa14dThe Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum194719101947-10givenEntry date: 1947-10. The price was for the pair of vases17531753CE1753circa17531754The date letter A was assigned in 1845 to 1753, more recently to late 1753 and part of 1754, and in 2014 proposed by Peters to have been introduced in 1754.11754CE17541754factoryreferenceagent-140732adlib-agent-1407321cccf6bc-5e51-3e11-a849-d05785821974Vincennes Porcelain ManufactoryThis is a pot-pourri Pompadour of the third size. The form was designed by the goldsmith and bronze-founder, Jean-Claude Duplessis (d. 1774), who worked for Vincennes and Sèvres between c. 1748 and 1774. This vase and its pair may have been the two mentioned in a garde robe of the Hôtel de Pompadour in the probate inventory of Madame de Pompadour in 1764, see Documentation.referenceterm-106496adlib-term-106496bd563695-7339-3178-a8c4-25189907099318th Century, Mid#referenceterm-113744adlib-term-113744da105475-9705-3ee7-94ad-24892e6217d4literalFranceFrancecountryliteralVal-de-MarneVal-de-MarneregionVincennespresumed lead-glazereferenceterm-107733adlib-term-10773300160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4lead-glazereferenceterm-37637adlib-term-3763789b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecbsoft-paste porcelainDiametercm14.8referencemedia-53537adlib-media-5353738f24616-63dd-3d5b-9ce4-017ab1e3bed6jpegaa/aa23/C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels627widthpixels76016162491092281imagejpegaa/aa23/mid_C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels413widthpixels50016162491092281imagejpegaa/aa23/C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels627widthpixels76016162491092281imagejpegaa/aa23/preview_C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels206widthpixels25016162491092281image0media
imagereferenceterm-89257adlib-term-892572707da46-9e7a-3109-9af7-6b0e5d567eeepot-pourri vasereferenceterm-107478adlib-term-10747881002e74-5083-37b8-a429-4a303fc40695coverfactory namepot-pourri Pompadourhistory noteThe late Duke of Kent; Christie's, 13 March 1947, Old English Furniture and Fine Porcelain, the property of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, p. 13, lot 163. Purchased from the Antique Porcelain Company, October, 1947 for £140.1referenceobject-82541adlib-object-8254144300eb1-d90f-33ec-a965-2e745b14e5db1reference1term-89257adlib-term-892572707da46-9e7a-3109-9af7-6b0e5d567eeepot-pourri vasepot-pourri vasereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. p. 13, lot 163p. 13referencepublication-3649adlib-publication-3649b128d330-e62e-36f9-a7a3-560e5e353508Old English Furniture and Fine Porcelain, the property of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KentPubl. pp. 36-49, on p. 42, both basespp. 36-49referencepublication-200001236adlib-publication-2000012369b874fca-2cd8-30bb-bbf8-947f03505897Madame de Pompadour et Vincennes/Sèvres, Chronologie d'une PassionRef. For the shape Pot-pourri Pompadour, see pp. 93-4, nos. 226-233, examples with different decoration.pp. 93-4referencepublication-3134adlib-publication-31343aca7c2c-770f-3903-8496-0510265bed08Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de SèvresRef. For the shape's history and other examples, see I, pp. 127-134, the Fitzwilliam Museum example mentioned on p. 129 as possibly from the garde-robe of the Hotel de Pompadour, and on p. 132, under Shape A, third size, (g). The Wallace examples C.239-40 are 1756 with later decoration.pp. 127-34referencepublication-2709adlib-publication-2709e4899c4a-b889-3004-9341-697b98920a9fThe Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres PorcelainCf. An example painted with blue floral sprays, marked with interlaced Ls and dot, and with later ormolu mounts, formerly in the Wilfred J. Sainsbury Collection, see p. 5, fig. VI without mounts, and fig. VII with mounts.3-8referencepublication-200001233adlib-publication-200001233b1537651-1d4d-344c-a2b9-f900cb24d80dVincennes PorcelainCf. p. 38, lot 144, the property of W.J. Sainsbury, the mounted vase with monochrome blue flowers (see also Vincennes Porcelain, 1954). From the Burdett Coutts Collection, The Fitzwilliam's vases were mentioned.38referencepublication-3650adlib-publication-3650a6c9b778-9484-30c5-8834-65c60bb2e6baImportant Continental Porcelain and PotteryCf. p. 137, no. 42, with different decoration.p. 137referencepublication-3651adlib-publication-3651b6570ad2-e4e9-30b7-8f3d-5e91ee060031Sèvres des Origines à nos JoursCf. pp. 99-101, no. 57 a pot-pourri Pompadour painted in blue enamel with garlands of flowers and birds, marked with crossed Ls, c. 1752-4. The Fitzwilliam's examples are mentioned on p. 99 as possibly the pair from the garde robe of Madame de Pompadour.99-101referencepublication-2724adlib-publication-2724e1cfd19f-1a09-348b-8813-f71b68d85f84French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan CollectionCf. p. 262, lot 428, a pot-pourri Pompadour of the third size, painted in blue of c. 1752 with slightly later mounts. Estimate $4-6,000. This vase is the one from the W.J. Sainsbury collection. The Fitzwilliam's pair are mentioned.262referencepublication-5821adlib-publication-582194ff8ef3-49fd-3381-b39f-ee376ddc0509The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company of New York, Important European Ceramics and Objects of Vertureferencepublication-7713adlib-publication-771313ecce43-21cf-3376-aa97-9167d26f86b9An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014referenceterm-9010adlib-term-9010ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6Rococoplantreferenceterm-107622adlib-term-107622523e46be-6c51-3455-8391-3ea334aab2f0flowersplantreferenceterm-108450adlib-term-1084502abaabcd-7ef8-3781-b95a-52e78269140acarnationliteralflowersflowersliteralcarnationcarnationreferenceterm-89257adlib-term-892572707da46-9e7a-3109-9af7-6b0e5d567eeepot-pourri vasepot-pourri vasesoft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, painted overglaze in blue enamel and gilded; the flower finial hand-modelled.referenceterm-120082adlib-term-120082ea83ed85-6b07-3e7e-83fc-440cfda22f7ethrowingpresumed lead-glazereferenceterm-120062adlib-term-120062d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206lead-glazingPot-pourri Pompadourobject
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