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

Scott) (sold, Sotheby's, London, June 12,

1984, lot 172); [Winifred Williams, Ltd.,

London, 1984].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adrian Sassoon, "Vincennes and Sevres

Porcelain Acquired by the J. Paul Getty

Museum in 1984," GettyMusJ'13 (1985),

pp. 89-91, illus.; "Acquisitions/1984,"

GettyMusJY>, (1985), no. 58, p. 180, illus.;

Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain,

David Battie, ed. (London, 1990), p. 107,

illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porce­

lain, no. ι, pp. 4-7, illus. pp. 5, 7.

213

213. Vase (cuvette ä tombeau, premiere
     grandeur)
     Vincennes manufactory, 1754-1755
     Painted by the crescent mark painter
     Soft-paste porcelain, bleu celeste ground
     color; polychrome enamel decoration;
     gilding

Painted underneath with the blue crossed

Z's of the Vincennes manufactory enclosing

the date letter A for 1753, and with the

painter's mark of a crescent.

Height: 9% in. (23.4 cm); Width: u^7 A in.

(30 cm); Depth: 8/2 in. (21.6 cm)

Accession number 73.DE. 64

PROVENANCE

(?) Sold by the Vincennes manufactory

between January! and August 20,1756, to

the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux, Paris,

for 840 livres; (?) sold by Lazare Duvaux on

March 1,1756, to Count Joachim Godske

Moltke of Copenhagen, Denmark, as part

of a garniture of five vases (sold by his

descendants in Paris in the nineteenth

century); [(?) Gilbert Levy, Paris, early

twentieth century]; private collection, Paris;

[Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York,

early 1970s]; purchased by J. Paul Getty..

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Le Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux,

marchand-bijoutier ordinaire du roy,

1/48-1758, Louis Courajod, ed. (Paris,

1873), vol. 2, no. 2420, p. 274; Savill, Sevres,

vol. ι, p. 33; n. 2a, p. 40; Tamara Préaud and

Antoine d'Albis, La Porcekine de Vincennes

(Paris, 1991), p. 67, illus., and no. 195, p. 180,

illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porce­

lain, no. 2, pp. 8-10, illus. pp. 9,11.

One of a pair 214

214. Pair of Pot-pourriVases (pots-pourris
     Pompadour, troisieme grandeur)
     Vincennes manufactory, 1755
     Model design by Jean-Claude Duplessis;
     painted by Jean-Louis Morin after engraved
     designs by Francois Boucher
     Soft-paste porcelain, bleu lapis ground color,
     carmine red decoration; gilding
     Each vase painted under the base with blue
     crossed L s of the Vincennes manufactory
     enclosing the date letter Cfor 1755, also with
     Morin's mark Mm blue and two blue dots.
     Each vase incised 2 under the base.

126 FRENCH CERAMICS: VINCENNES