One of a pair 239- Pair of Vases (vases Bolvry a perles or
vases a cartels Bolvry)
Sevres manufactory, 1781-1782
Painted by Vincent Taillandier, Mme
Genevieve Taillandier, and Philippe Castel
Hard-paste porcelain, pink fondpointillé\
polychrome enamel decoration; gilding
Both vases are painted underneath with
the crowned, blue crossed L's of the Sevres
manufactory enclosing the date letter EE for
1781-1782, and with the painter's mark for
Vincent Taillandier, a fleur-de-lys. Vase .1 is
incised gu under the base.
Height: 1 ft. \V% in. (42.5 cm); Width: 9 in.
(22.9 cm); Depth: 6^5 /s in. (16.8 cm)
Accession number 88 .DE.137.1-.2
PROVENANCE
[Jacques Seligmann, Paris]; (anonymous
sale, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, June 16,1987,
lot 104); [Jean Lupu, Paris, 1988].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJYJ (1989),
no. 76, pp. 143-144, illus.PROVENANCE
William J. Goode (sold, Christie's, London,
July 17-18,1895, lot 17, as "formerly the
property of the Director of the Sevres Porce-
lain Factory," for 39 guineas to Gibson); pri-
vate collection, England; [Bernard Dragesco
and Didier Cramoisan, Paris, 1987].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Edouard Gamier, La Porcekine tendré de
Sevres (Paris, 1889), pi. xxvi; "Acquisitions/
1988," GettyMusJ'17 (1989), no. 77, p. 144,
illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porce-
kin, no. 26, pp. 136-137, illus. pp. 136-137.- Plate (assiette d'echantillons)
Sevres manufactory, 1782
Ground color painted by Antoine Capelle,
flowers painted by Jacques-Francois-Louis
de Laroche; gilded by Henri-Martin Prévost
jeune
Soft-paste porcelain, (?) fond Capelle ground
color; colored enamel decoration; gilding
Painted underneath with the blue crossed
Is of the Sevres manufactory enclosing the
date letter EE for 1782, the painters' marks
for Capelle, a blue triangle, and Laroche, Lr
in script, the gilder's mark, an HP in gold,
and incised 31a.
240Height: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diameter: <)^5 /i6 in.
(23.6 cm)
Accession number 88.DE. 2FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES I455£