- Pair of Vases (pot-pourri ä bobeches)
Sevres manufactory, 1759
Painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin after
engraved designs by David Teniers lejeune
Soft-paste porcelain, pink and green
ground colors; polychrome enamel decora
tion; gilding
One painted underneath with the blue
crossed Z's of the Sevres manufactory
enclosing the date letter G for 1759, and
with Dodin's mark k. Various paper collec
tors' labels pasted under the bases. One
vase unmarked.
Height: 9Ψ16 in. (24.9 cm); Width: 5V16 in.
(14.4 cm); Depth: 3% in. (9.4 cm)
Accession number 75 .DE.65.1-.2
PROVENANCE
[Duveen Brothers, New York]; J. Pierpont
Morgan, London and New York; J. Pier
pont Morgan, Jr., New York (sold, Parke-
Bernet, New York, March 25, 1944, lot 647);
Paula de Koenigsberg, Buenos Aires, 1945;
Claus de Koenigsberg, Buenos Aires;
[Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York,
1975]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, on loan 1914-1915 from J. Pierpont
Morgan; Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de
Bellas Artes, Exposición de obras maestras:
Colección Paula de Koenigsberg, October
1945, no. 206, illus.; Buenos Aires, Museo
Nacional de Arte Decorativo, El Arte de
vivir en francia del siglo XVIII, September-
November 1968, no. 427, pl. 221.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. G. Konody, "Die Kunsthistorische
Sammlung Pierpont Morgans," Kunst und
Kunsthandwerk (Vienna, 1903), no. 6, p. 158;
comte Xavier de Chavagnac, Catalogue
des porcelaines frangaises de M. J. Pierpont
Morgan (Paris, 1910), no. 107, pl. 32; Gillian
Wilson, "Sevres Porcelain at the J. Paul
Getty Museum," GettyMusJ4 (1977),
pp. 5-24, illus.; Adrian Sassoon, "Sevres
Vases," Techniques of the Worlds Great
Masters of Pottery and Ceramics, Hugo
Morley-Fletcher, ed. (Oxford, 1984),
pp. 64-67, illus. p. 31; Pierre Ennés,
"Essai de réconstitution d'une garniture
de Madame de Pompadour," Journal of
the Walters Art Gallery 42-43 (1984-1985),
pp. 70-82; /. Pierpont Morgan, Collector:
European Decorative Arts from the Wads-
worth Atheneum, Linda Horvitz Roth, ed.
(Hartford, 1987), p. 203; Barry Shifman,
"Eighteenth-Century Sevres Porcelain in
America," Madame de Pompadour et la
Jhraison des arts (Montreal, 1988), pp. 118-123;
Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres PorceUin,
no. 9, pp. 42-48, illus. pp. 42-45.
- Lidded Pot-pourri Vase (vase or
pot-pourri vaisseau a mat, deuxieme
grandeur)
Sevres manufactory, circa 1760
Painting attributed to Charles-Nicolas
Dodin
Back view 221
FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES 131
221
