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

Height: 10 in. (25.5 cm); Diameter: 6 in.
(15.2 cm)
Accession number 84.DE.3.1-.2

PROVENANCE
(?) Sold by the Sevres manufactory between
August 20, 1756, and September 1756 to the
marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux, Paris, for
180 livres each; (?) sold by Lazare Duvaux in
September 1756 to Frederick, 3rd Viscount
St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, Lydiard
Park, Wiltshire; anonymous collection (sold,
Sotheby's, London, March 5, 1957, lot 96);
[The Antique Porcelain Co., London, 1957];
private collection; [The Antique Porcelain
Co., London, 1983].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adrian Sassoon, "Vincennes and Sevres

Porcelain Acquired by the J. Paul Getty

Museum in 1984," GettyMusJ 13 (1985),

pp. 91-94, illus.; "Acquisitions/1983,"

GettyMusJ'13 (1985), no. 60, p. 181, illus.;

Savill, Sevres, vol. 1, p. 129; n. 3k, p. 132;

nn. 26, 32, p. 134; vol. 2, p. 851; n. 59, p. 857;

Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain,

no. 3, pp. 12-18, illus. pp. 13-15,18.

SEVRES

215. Basket (panier^ deuxieme grandeur)
     Sevres manufactory, 1756
     Soft-paste porcelain, green ground color;
     gilding
     Painted under the base with the blue
     crossed Z's of the Sevres manufactory
     enclosing the date letter D for 1756, and
     with three dots. Incised with répareurs mark
     PZ under the base.

PROVENANCE

Private collection, France (sold, Christie's,

London, June 28,1982, lot 19); [Armin Β.

Allen, New York, 1982].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sassoon, "Acquisitions 1982," no. 8,

pp. 45-47, illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 26,

pp. 52-53, illus.; Adrian Sassoon, "Sevres:

Luxury for the Court," Techniques of the

Worlds Great Masters of Pottery and Ceramics,

Hugo Morley-Fletcher, ed. (Oxford, 1984),

pp. 52-57, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 165,

illus.; Antoine d'Albis, "Le Marchand Mer-

cier Lazare Duvaux et la Porcelaine de Vin­

cennes," Les Decors des boutiques parisiennes,

La Delegation ä l'Action Artistique de la

Ville de Paris, eds. (Paris, 1987), pp. 76-88;

Savill, Sevres, vol. 2, p. 752; n. 3d, p. 756;

Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porcehin,

no. 4, pp. 20-22, illus. pp. 21-22; Handbook

1991, p. 181, illus.

Height: 8^5 /s in. (22 cm); Width: j^7 A in.

(20.1 cm); Depth: ylA in. (18 cm)

Accession number 82 .DE.92

FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES 1TJ

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