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

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247); Christian Humann, New York (sold,
Sotheby's, New York, April 22,1982, lot 41);
[Armin Β. Allen, New York, 1982].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sassoon, "Acquisitions 1982," no. 11,
pp. 54-56, illus.; Sassoon, Vincennes and
Sevres PorceUin, no. 18, pp. 88-92, illus.
pp. 89, 91, 93.


  1. Pair of Vases ([?] vases oeuf)
    Sevres manufactory, 1768-1769
    Figure painting attributed to Jean-Baptiste-
    Etienne Genest
    Soft-paste porcelain, bleu Fallotground;
    grisaille enamel decoration; gilding; gilt-
    bronze mounts
    Vase .1 incised with the number 4 on its
    body, foot, and twice on its lid; Vase .2
    incised with the number 1 on the body, with
    (?) 3 on its foot, and 2 on its lid.


Height: 1 ft. 5% in. (45.1 cm); Width:
9/2 in. (24.1 cm); Depth: 7/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Accession number 86 .DE.520.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Purchased by Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh,
Uppark, Sussex, from the marchand-mercier
Rocheux, Paris, September 22,1819; Alfred
de Rothschild, in the South Drawing Room,
Halton, Buckinghamshire, 1884; Leopold
de Rothschild, Ascott, Buckinghamshire,
before 1918; by descent to Lionel de Roth­
schild, Exbury, Hampshire; by descent to

Vase .1 230

Edmund de Rothschild, Exbury House,
Hampshire, 1942 (sold with a mounted vase
Hebert, Christie's, London, July 4,1946,
lot 90); [Frank Partridge, Ltd., London];
Seymour Egerton, 7th Earl of Wilton,
London, 1947 (this pair of vases only, with­
out the vase Héberí)-, Sir Charles Clore,
London and Monte Carlo (sold after his
death, Christie's, Monaco, December 6,
1945, lot 6).

Vase .2 230

BIBLIOGRAPHY
James Sassoon, "The Art Market/Sevres and
Vincennes," Apollo 125, no. 304 (June 1987),
pp. 440-441, illus.; "Acquisitions/1986,"
GettyMusJ 15 (1987), no. 107, p. 214, illus.;
Savill, Sevres, vol. 1, pp. 184, 377; n. 2J,
p. 190; n. 16, p. 191; n. 9, p. 383; Sassoon,
Vincennes and Sevres Porcehin, no. 19,
pp. 94-101, illus. pp. 95-96, 99-101; Hand­
book 1991, p. 188, illus.

138 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES

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