Soft-paste porcelain, pink and green ground
colors; polychrome enamel decoration;
gilding
Painted underneath with the blue crossed Es
(partially abraded) of the Sevres manufactory.
Height: ι ft. 2^34 in. (37.5 cm); Width:
ι ft. in/i6 in. (34.8 cm); Depth: 6 I3/i6 in.
(17.4 cm)
Accession number 75 .DE.n.a-.b
PROVENANCE
(?) George William, 6th Earl of Coventry,
Croóme Court, Worcestershire; George
William, 7th Earl of Coventry, Croóme
Court, Worcestershire (sold, Christie's,
London, June 12,1874, part of lot 150,
for £10,500); William Humble, ist Earl
of Dudley, Dudley House, London, 1874;
(sold privately, 1885-1886); William J.
Goode, London (offered for sale, Christie's,
London, July 17,1895, Part of lot 147,
bought in for £8,400; sold, Christie's, Lon-
don, May 20,1898, part of lot 94b, for
£6,450 to Pilkington); [Asher Wertheimer,
London, 1898]; [Duveen Brothers, New
York]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York,
1908-1910 (purchased for £15,500); J. Pier-
pont Morgan, Jr., New York, 1913 (sold,
Parke-Bernet, New York, January 8, 1944,
lot 486); 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. 205, illus.; Buenos Aires, Museo
Nacional de Arte Decorativo, El arte de
vivir enfrancia del siglo XVIII, September-
November 1968.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
George Redford, Art Sales 1628-1887 (Lon-
don, 1888), vol. i, pp. 400, 438; comte
Xavier de Chavagnac, Catalogue des porce-
Uines frangaises de M. J. Pierpont Morgan
(Paris, 1910), no. 109, pl. 33; Frederick
Litchfield, "Imitations and Reproductions:
Part I—Sevres Porcelain," Connoisseur
(September 1917), p. 6; C. C. Dauterman,
J. Parker, and E. Standen, Decorative Art
from the S. Η Kress Collection in the Metro
politan Museum of Art (London, 1964),
p. 195; Gillian Wilson, "Sevres Porcelain at
the J. Paul Getty Museum," GettyMusJ 4
(Malibu, 1977), pp. 5-24, illus. pp. 6-7;
Wilson, Selections, no. 29, pp. 58-59, illus.;
Pierre Ennés, Nouvelles acquisitions du
department des objets d'art, 1980-1984 (Musée
du Louvre, Paris, 1985), p. 135; Handbook
1986, p. 167, illus.; Sir John Plumb, "The
Intrigues of Sevres," House and Garden 158,
no. i (U.S.A., January 1986), pp. 44-45;
/. Pierpont Morgan, Collector: European Deco
rative Arts from the Wadsworth Atheneum,
Linda Horvitz Roth, ed. (Hartford, 1987),
p. 34, illus. fig. 8, p. 162, and p. 203; Barry
Shifman, "Eighteenth-Century Sevres Porcelain in America," Madame de Pompadour
et la floraison des arts (Montreal, 1988),
pp. 118-123; Savill, Sevres, vol. 1, p. 192;
nn. 43-44, p. 55; n. 25, p. 117; n. 3h, p. 196;
n. 23, p. 197; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres
Porcehin, no. 10, pp. 49-56, illus. pp. 51,
53-55; Handbook 1991, p. 183, illus.- Pair of Vases (pots-pourris fontaine
or pots-pourris ä dauphins)
Sevres manufactory, circa 1760
Painting attributed to Charles-Nicolas
Dodin
Soft-paste porcelain, pink, green, and bleu
Upis ground colors; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilding
Painted underneath the central section of
one vase with the blue crossed Z's of the
Sevres manufactory.
Height: 1134 in. (29.8 cm); Width: 6/4 in.
(16.5 cm); Depth: 5^34 in. (14.6 cm)
Accession number 78.DE.358.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Marquise de Pompadour, Hotel Pompa
dour, Paris, 1760-1764; Mme Legere, Paris
(sold, Paris, December 15-17, 1784, part of
lot 152); (?) Grace Caroline, Duchess of
Cleveland (married the 6th Duke 1815,
died 1883); William Goding, before 1862
(sold, Christie's, London, March 19,1874,
lot 100, to [E. Rutter, Paris] [for the Earl of132 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES