Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

PROVENANCE

[Michel Vandermeersch, Paris].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJ 15 (1987),

no. 103, pp. 212-213, illus.

MENNECY

208. Bust of Louis XV
     Mennecy manufactory, circa 1750-1755
     Soft-paste porcelain
     Height: 1 ft. 5 in. (43.2 cm); Width: 9 9 /i6 in.
     (24.5 cm); Depth: $nÄ6 in. (14.5 cm)
     Accession number 84 .DE.46

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PROVENANCE

Private collection, Paris (sold, Hotel Drouot,

Paris, March 14,1910, lot 44); [Vander­

meersch, Paris, late 1940s]; Mr. and Mrs.

William Brown Meloney, Riverdale, New

York, late 1940s; [The Antique Porcelain

Co., Zurich, from late 1950s].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Babette Craven, "French Soft Paste Porce­

lain in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs.

William Brown Meloney," Connoisseur 143

(May 1959), pp. 135-142, fig. 10; "Acquisi­

tions/1984," GettyMusJ13 (1985), no. 55,

p. 179, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 160, illus.;

Handbook 1991, p. 176, illus.

209. Figure of a Street Vendor
     Mennecy manufactory, circa 1755-1760
     Soft-paste porcelain
     Impressed on the right side of the base with
     the Mennecy manufactory mark DV.

Height: 93 /s in. (23.9 cm); Width: 4/2 in.

(11.5 cm); Depth: 4% in. (10.7 cm)

Accession number 86 .DE.473

PROVENANCE

Mr. and Mrs. William Brown Meloney,

Riverdale, New York; [The Antique Porce­

lain Co., New York, 1986].

209

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Babette Craven, "French Soft Paste Porce­

lain in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs.

William Brown Meloney," Connoisseur 143

(May 1959), p. 142; "Acquisitions/1986,"

GettyMusJri5 (1987), no. 104, p. 213, illus.

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