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A ROYAL SEVRES HARD PASTE PORCELAIN VASE AND COVER (VASE `CHINOIS`, 2EME GRANDEUR OR VASE ‘A PIED DE GLOBE`, 2EME GRANDEUR)

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£ 150 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 9 | A ROYAL SEVRES HARD PASTE PORCELAIN VASE AND COVER (VASE 'CHINOIS', 2EME GRANDEUR OR VASE ‘A PIED DE GLOBE', 2EME GRANDEUR)
A ROYAL SEVRES HARD PASTE PORCELAIN VASE AND COVER (VASE 'CHINOIS', 2EME GRANDEUR OR VASE ‘A PIED DE GLOBE', 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1777, IRON-RED CROWNED INTERLACED L MARKS, PAINTER’S MARK FOR JEAN-JACQUES DIEU
With gilt strap handles suspending rings, the tall domed cover with pinecone finial, painted and enriched in two colours of gilding with a continuous scene of chinoiserie musicians and flag bearers, an immortal riding a crane in flight above them, in a landscape of pavilions on islands, flowering shrubs and terracing, within wreaths of pink berried gilt oak leaves
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high




Provenance

Almost certainly from a garniture of five vases painted by Jean-Jacques Dieu in January 1777 and sold to Louis XVI in 1777 for 4,200 livres (recorded on 6 June 1778).
Collection Edouard Chappey, Paris; sold Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 29 April – 3 May 1907, lot 645 (one of a pair of vases ‘chinois’, 2ème grandeur, the pair illustrated).
Acquired at the Chappey sale by Madame Guédu for 4,100 francs, probably acting on behalf of Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch (1850-1908).
Very likely the gift of Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch to his mistress, Elizabeta Balletta (c.1870-1959), prima ballerina at the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg (one of a pair of vases ‘chinois’, 2ème grandeur).
Collection of Madame Elizabeta Balletta; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 – 11 May 1912, lot 136 (as a pair, for 4,700 francs to Maurice Houzeau, 4 rue de la Paix, Paris).
With Nicolier (Jean Nicolier), Paris, 1964 (as a pair).
The Collection of Juan de Beistegui (1930-2017), l’Hôtel de Lannes, rue de Varennes, Paris, 1965 (as a pair).
Private American Collection, acquired on the art market in Argentina, circa 1990 (as a single vase).
The current owner, acquired through the American art market.



Literature

Plaisir de France, October 1964, p. 67, no. 15 (illustrated as a pair).
Schlumberger, ‘Révélation d’un salon voué aux fastes de l’Empire: l’Hôtel de Lannes’, Connaissance des Arts, no. 161, July 1965, pp. 36-37 (illustrated as a pair on a chimneypiece in the Hôtel de Lannes).
Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1988, p. 363, pp. 360 and 364.



Exhibited

With Nicolier, Paris Biennale, 1964.
Manufactur:Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Vases and vessels
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