gilder's mark for Le Guay, LG, in gold; one
saucer incised with a cross and two dots and
the other with an Xwithin a square.
Tray: Height: i^7 /s in. (4.8 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3% in. (38.8 cm); Depth: 10% in.
(26 cm); Teapot: Height: 4% in. (12.4 cm);
Width: 6/2 in. (16.5 cm); Depth: 3^3 4 in.
(7.6 cm); Lidded Sugar Bowl: Height:
27 /i6 in. (6.2 cm); Diameter: 3 in. (7.6 cm);
Cup: Height: 25 /i6 in. (8.8 cm); Width:
35 Λ in. (9.2 cm); Depth: 2^3 4 in. (7 cm);
Saucer: Height: 1% in. (3.2 cm); Diameter:
54 in. (3.3 cm)
Accession number 89.DE.25.1—.5
PROVENANCE
[Michel Vandermeersch, Paris]; [Bernard
Dragesco and Didier Cramoisan, Paris,
1988].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1989," GettyMusJ18 (1990),
no. 50, p. 192, illus.
233Exbury, Southampton, Hampshire, 1918; by
descent to Edmund de Rothschild, Exbury,
Hampshire, 1942 (sold, Christie s, London,
July 4,1946, lot 87, to [Frank Partridge,
Ltd., London]); Col. Norman Colville,
England; private collection, California
(sold, Christie's, New York, January 30,
1985, lot 137); [The Antique Porcelain Co.,
New York].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
C. Davis, A Description of the Works of Art:
Collection of Alfred de Rothschild (London,
1884), vol. 2, fig. 87; C. Gay Nieda, "A
Sevres Vase ä Panneaux" GettyMusJ 14
(1986), pp. 127-134, figs. 1-3, 8-9; "Acquisi
tions/1985," GettyMusJ'14 (1986), no. 199,
p. 246, illus.; Savill, Sevres, vol. 1, pp. 278,
325, and 380; n. 31, p. 244; n. 19, p. 281;
n. 3c p. 332; n. 21, p. 383; vol. 3, p. 1125;
Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porcehin,
no. 21, pp. 106-110, illus. pp. 107-108,
110-111.- Lidded Vase (vase ä panneaux,
premiere grandeur)
Sevres manufactory, circa 1765-1770
Reserve scene after a painting by Nicolas
Berchem
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground
color; polychrome enamel decoration; gild
ing; gilt-bronze mount
The interior of the lip is incised 2.
Height: 1 ft. 63 A in. (47.5 cm); Width:
IOVA in. (26 cm); Depth: 8 /16 in. (20.5 cm)
Accession number 85 .DE.219.a--b
PROVENANCE
(?) Comte de Jarnac, Thomastown Castle,
Ireland (sold, Christies, London, June 23,
1876, lot 89); William Humble, ist Earl of
Dudley; possibly sold by his widow; Alfred
de Rothschild, Halton, Buckinghamshire,
by 1884; by descent to Lionel de Rothschild,- Cup and Saucer (gobelet BouiUard
et soucoupe)
Sevres manufactory, 1770
Painted by Jacques Fontaine
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu celeste ground
color; grisaille enamel decoration; gilding
Cup painted with the blue crossed L s of the
Sevres manufactory enclosing the date letter
r for 1770, and with Fontaine's mark of five
dots. Cup incised C; saucer incised 6.
I40 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES