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Pot-pourri vase and cover
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Méreaud, Pierre-Antoine
Soft-paste porcelain pot-pourri vase and cover, painted in enamels with stylised flowers, leaves and shell motifs around each opening, and gilded.
Soft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, painted in blue, green, yellow, pale pink, dark pink, and maroon enamels, and gilded. The ovoid vase stands on a circular pedestal foot. The ogee domed cover (a replacement) has a sloping rim, and a cylindrical flange fitting inside the neck of the vase. The finial is in the shape of a double pink on a stalk with two buds and four leaves. The shoulder and the dome of the cover are each pierced by six anthemion- or fan-shaped openings. The dome of the cover has a pink and blue pointillé ground. The step has a bleu nouveau ground enriched with fine irregular gold lines. The finial is heavily gilded overall; the edges of the openings are outlined in gold and there is a band of gilding round the outer edge. The shoulders of the vase have a similar pink and blue pointillé ground and the openings are similarly outlined in gold. Immediately below and divided from it by a line of gilding, the main field of the vase is on a slightly higher level. The part immediately below the line is decorated between the openings above with a stylised flower or oval patera motif in shades of dark pink and maroon, on a bleu nouveau and gilt ground. Below this are swags of red roses hanging from yellow shell motifs placed beneath each of the pierced anthemions. Above the junction of the vase and foot there is a pink, maroon, and blue 'gadroon' pattern. On the foot there are stylised green palms and dark maroon flowers separated by triangular blue panels, and a border of alternating ovals and smaller circles between gold bands.
History note: Uncertain before Louis C.G. Clarke, Cambridge
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Diameter: 13.5 cm
Height: 25 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1765
This vase is a variant of the pot-pourri Pompadour; Savill's version C of the third size h. 22.8 to 26.5 cm. See Documentation, Savill, 1988. The cover appears to be a replacement.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pale pink, dark pink, and purple)
gold
Foot
Diameter 10 cm
Cover
Diameter 9.9 cm
Vase
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: interlaced L's enclosing M
Inscription present: the M and the 5 are virtually illegible
Accession number: C.28 & A-1961
Primary reference Number: 93565
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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