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225. Vase (cuvette Mahon, troisieme
     grandeur)
     Sevres manufactory, 1761
     Painted by Jean-Louis Morin
     Soft-paste porcelain, pink ground color
     overlaid with blue enamel; polychrome
     enamel decoration; gilding
     Painted under one foot with the blue
     crossed L's of the Sevres manufactory
     enclosing the date letter /for 1761, and
     with Morin's mark M.

4 Η

Height: $Vs in. (15 cm); Width: 9 /16 in.

(23 cm); Depth: 4 n/i6 in. (11.9 cm)

Accession number 72 .DE.65

PROVENANCE

Sold, March 30, 1763, by the Sevres manu­

factory to Lemaitre, as part of a garniture

with another cuvette Mahon, for 264 livres

each, and with a cuvette ä masques; de

Bargigli collection (offered for sale, Christie's,

Geneva, April 22,1970, lot 18, bought in;

sold, Christie's, London, October 4,1971,

lot 42); [Olivier Levy, Paris, 1971]; [French

and Co., New York, 1971]; purchased by

J. Paul Getty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gillian Wilson, "Sevres Porcelain at the

J. Paul Getty Museum," GettyMusJ 4 (1977),

pp. 19-24, illus.; Savill, Sevres, vol. 1, pp. 38,

93; nn. 40, 43, p. 42; n. 44, p. 55; nn. 15, 22,

p. 97; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porce-

kin, no. 14, pp. 72-76, illus. p. 73.

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226. Cup and Saucer (gobelet et soucoupe
     enfoncé, premiere grandeur)
     Sevres manufactory, 1761
     Soft-paste porcelain, pink ground color
     overlaid with blue enamel; polychrome
     enamel decoration; gilding
     Saucer painted underneath with the blue
     crossed Z's of the Sevres manufactory
     enclosing the date letter / for 1761, and
     with a dot. Saucer incised 00 underneath.
     Cup incised DU underneath in two places.

Cup: Height: 39 /i6 in. (9.1 cm); Width:

43 /i6 in. (10.7 cm); Depth: 3^3 /s in. (8.6 cm);

Saucer: Height: ilA in. (3.8 cm); Diameter: 6

V% in. (15.6 cm)

Accession number 79 .DE.62.a-.b

PROVENANCE

[Olivier Levy, Paris]; [French and Co., New

York, early 1970s]; Mrs. John W. Christner,

Dallas (sold, Christie's, New York, June 9,

1979, lot 241).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wilson, "Acquisitions 1979 to mid 1980,"

p. 19, illus.; Savill, Sevres, vol. 2, p. 675;

nn. 21, 26, p. 685; Sassoon, Vincennes and

Sevres Pörcehin, no. 15, pp. 78-80, illus.

pp. 79-80.

FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES 135