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2i6. Ewer and Basin (broc et jatte feuille

d'eau, premiere grandeur)

Sevres manufactory, 1757

Possibly modeled after a design by Jean-

Claude Duplessis

Soft-paste porcelain, pink ground color;

polychrome enamel decoration; gilding

Basin painted underneath with the blue

crossed Is of the Sévres manufactory

enclosing the date letter Ε for 1757, and

with an unidentified painters mark. Ewer

incised .T.m; basin incised C.N.

Ewer: Height: y^9 Ä6 in. (19.2 cm); Width:

55 /8 in. (14.1 cm); Depth: 3% in. (8.1 cm);

Basin: Height: 2^34 in. (7.1 cm); Width:

11/4 in. (29.1 cm); Depth: 8%s in. (22.1 cm)

Accession number: 84 .DE.88.a-.b

PROVENANCE

(?) William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott,

5th Duke of Portland (died 1879); Dukes

of Portland, by descent, Welbeck Abbey,

Nottinghamshire (sold, Henry Spencer and

Sons, Retford, Nottinghamshire, July 23,

1970, lot 288); [Winifred Williams, Ltd.,

London, 1970]; Eric Robinson, Mereworth

Castle, Kent (sold, Sotheby's, London,

June 12,1984, lot 213); [Winifred Williams,

Ltd., London, 1984].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Best, Son, and Carpenter, Catalogue of the

Ornamental Furniture, Works of Art, and

Porcehin at Welbeck Abbey (London, 1897),

no. 296, p. 52; Adrian Sassoon, "Vincennes

and Sévres Porcelain Acquired by the J. Paul

Getty Museum in 1984," GettyMusJ 13

(1985), pp. 95-98, illus.; "Acquisitions/1984,"

GettyMusJY>> (1985), no. 61, p. 181, illus.;

Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain,

David Battie, ed. (London, 1990), p. 109,

illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sévres Porce­

lain, no. 5, pp. 24-28, illus. pp. 25-27.

217. Pair of Figure Groups: The Flute
     Lesson (Le Fluteur) and The Grape
     Eaters (Les Mangeurs de Raisins)
     Sévres manufactory, circa 1757-1766
     After designs by Francois Boucher
     Soft-paste biscuit porcelain, traces of red
     pigment
     The Flute Lesson incised Fon back.

The Flute Lesson: Height: 8^34 in. (22.3 cm);

Width: 10 in. (25.4 cm); Depth: 6 in.

(15.2 cm); The Grape Eaters: Height: 9 in.

(22.9 cm); Width: 934 in. (24.8 cm); Depth:

7 in. (17.8 cm)

The Flute Lesson 217

The Grape Eaters 217

Accession number 70 .DE.98.1-.2

PROVENANCE

Goury de Rosland, Paris (sold, Galerie

Georges Petit, Paris, May 29-30,1905,

lot 108); Mortimer L. Schiff, New York

(sold by his heir John L. Schiff, Christie's,

London, June 22,1938, lot 27); purchased

at that sale by J. Paul Getty.

128 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES