Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

1984 "GettyMusJ 13 (1985), no. 4, pp.

98-104, figs. 22-23, 25-33; "Acquisitions /

1984," GettyMusJ13 (1985), no. 64, p. 182,

illus.; Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sévres

Porcehin in the Collection of Her Majesty the

Queen: The Louis XVI Service (Cambridge

and New York, 1985), p. 12, fig. 8, and p. 24,

no. 2; Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de

Bellaigue, Sévres PorceUin: Vincennes and

Sévres 1740-1800 (London and Boston,

1987), p. 139, no. 147, p. 339, illus. p. 338;

Savill, Sévres, vol. 1, p. 458; n. 25, p. 462,

and vol. 3, p. 1056; n. 16, p. 1017; n. 10, p.

1057; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sévres

Porcelain, no. 25, pp. 126-135, illus. pp.

127-134; Handbook 1991, p. 193, illus.

237

is painted underneath with the gold crossed
Z's of the Sévres manufactory and with LG;
it is incised age 2e g (for deuxiéme grandeur)
on the base and Bono over Β on the neck.
Vase .1: Height: 1 ft. 6V1 in. (49.6 cm);
Width: io^7 /% in. (27.7 cm); Depth: yVs in.
(19.3 cm); Vase .2: Height: 1 ft. 4 in.
(40.8 cm); Width: 9% in. (24.8 cm); Depth:
7% in. (18.4 cm); Vase .3: Height: 1 ft. 3 I5/i6
in. (40.5 cm); Width: 10 in. (25.4 cm);
Depth: 7V16 in. (18 cm)
Accession number 84.DE.718.1—.3

PROVENANCE

Louis XVI, in the bibliothéque at the

Chateau de Versailles, November 2,1781;

Lionel de Rothschild, Exbury, Hampshire;

by descent to Edmund de Rothschild,

Exbury, Hampshire, 1942 (sold, Christie's,

London, July 4,1946, lot 89, for £1,575 to

"FP" [Frank Partridge?]); [The Antique

Porcelain Co., London, by 1951].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pierre Verlet, "Orders for Sévres from the

French Court," Burlington Magazine 96

(July 1954), pp. 202-206; Adrian Sassoon,

"Vincennes and Sévres Porcelain Acquired

by the J. Paul Getty Museum in

FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES I43