A VINCENNES PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR TUREEN, COVER AND STAND (POT A OILLE `FORME ANCIENNE` SON COUVERCLE ET SON PLATEAU) - photo 1
A VINCENNES PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR TUREEN, COVER AND STAND (POT A OILLE `FORME ANCIENNE` SON COUVERCLE ET SON PLATEAU) - photo 2

A VINCENNES PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR TUREEN, COVER AND STAND (POT A OILLE `FORME ANCIENNE` SON COUVERCLE ET SON PLATEAU)

Lot 361
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 176 400
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Lot 361 | A VINCENNES PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR TUREEN, COVER AND STAND (POT A OILLE 'FORME ANCIENNE' SON COUVERCLE ET SON PLATEAU)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
A VINCENNES PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR TUREEN, COVER AND STAND (POT A OILLE 'FORME ANCIENNE' SON COUVERCLE ET SON PLATEAU)

CIRCA 1750, ELABORATE BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS FOR THE PAINTER LOUIS-DENIS ARMAND L'AINE

The waisted bombé-shaped tureen supported on four scroll-molded feet enriched in puce and gilding, with entwined leaf-molded handles, painted with exotic birds in landscapes among flowers and foliage, the circular scroll-molded stand with a central blue and gilt petal-molded rosette, flanked by four vignettes of exotic birds in landscapes, within a puce, blue and gilt feuilles-de-choux-molded border with four smaller vignettes, each with a bird a in landscape, within gilt-lined rims, the cover painted with pair of exotic birds on four terraces, the finial as a lemon resting among flowers and leaves

16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide, the stand





Provenance

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Château de Ferrières.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 and transferred to Germany.

Returned to France and restituted to the Rothschild family on 29 March 1946.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Archives of the Commission de Récuperation Artistique (CRA), Archives Diplomatiques, Paris, 209 SUP/108 – Collections de Mr le Baron Edouard de Rothschild (Château de Ferrieres): 2ème inventaire des objets d’art du Château de Ferrières à Ferrieres-en-Brie (Set M). (Objets d’art emportés par les Allemands au cours de leur occupation du Château), p. 7: ‘Petite salle à manger - Nos. 107 à 108 – Une paire de Terrines à soupe avec décors animaux oiseaux. Couvercle avec citron. Sèvres environ de 1750.’



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Paul Alfassa and Jacques Guérin, Porcelaine Française du XVIIe au milieu du XIXe siècle, n.d, circa 1929, pl. 51.

Tamara Préaud, Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Porcelaine de Vincennes, les origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, October 14 1977-January 16 1978, p. 131, no. 389.

Svend Eriksen, Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, no. 60, p. 240-241.

Tamara Préaud, Antoine d'Albis, La Porcelaine de Vincennes, Paris, 1991, p. 96.

Bernard Dragesco 'Armand l’ainé peintre de nature' in John Whitehead, Sèvres sous Louis XV, naissance de la légende, 2010, pp. 90-91.

Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres porcelain, 2021, Norwich, vol. I, p. 281 fig. 10.11.
Manufactur:Vincennes Porcelain Factory
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Tureens
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes
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