- Pair of Vases (vases bouc du Barry B)
Sevres manufactory, 1778
Painted by Fallot; gilded by Jean Chauveaux
lejeune
Hard-paste porcelain; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilding
Each vase painted underneath with the
gold crossed Z's of the Sevres manufactory
flanked by the date letters AA in gold for
1778, all under a crown for hard paste;
each vase also painted underneath with
Chauveaux s mark IN'm gold and with an
abraded (?) F for Fallot.
Height: u^5 /s in. (29.5 cm); Width: 7 in.
(17.9 cm); Depth: 4% in. (12 cm)
Accession number 70.DE.99.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Sir Richard Wallace, Paris, probably
acquired after 1870; Lady Wallace, Paris,
by inheritance, 1890; Sir John Murray
Scott, Paris, by inheritance, 1897; Victoria,
Lady Sackville, Paris, by inheritance, 1912;
[Jacques Seligmann, removed to New York,
1916-1917]; Mortimer L. Schiff, New York
(sold by his heir John L. Schiff, Christie's,
London, June 22, 1938, lot 26); purchased at
that sale by J. Paul Getty.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rosalind Savill, "A Pair of Sevres Vases:
From the Collection of Sir Richard Wallace
to the J. Paul Getty Museum," GettyMusJ 14
(1986), pp. 135-142, figs. ia~c; Savill, Sevres,
vol. ι, p. 442; n. 45, p. 446; vol. 3, n. 2,
p. 1022; Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porce
lain, no. 23, pp. 115-118, illus. pp. 116-117.One of a pair 236- Garniture of Three Vases (vases des
ages: vase des ages a tetes de vieillards^
premiere grandeurs vases des äges a
tetes de jeunes femmes, deuxieme
grandeur)
Sevres manufactory, 1781
After designs by Jacques Francois Deparis,
at least one vase modeled by Etienne-Henry
Bono, painted by Antoine Caton after
engravings by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard; enamel
jeweling by Philippe Parpette and gilding by
Etienne-Henri Le Guay pere
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground
color; polychrome enamel decoration;
opaque and translucent enamel "jewels";
gilding and gold foils
Vase .1 (with the scene "Minerva protects
Telemachus and preserves him from Cupid's
darts") is incised IΟ Β age le g (for premiere
grandeur) on the base and JO. Β on the
neck. Vase .2 (with the scene "Venus, in
order to satisfy her resentment against
Telemachus, brings Love to Calypso") is
painted underneath with the gold crossed
Z's of the Sevres manufactory and with LG,
the gilder's mark; it is incised 39 A on the
base and A 16 on the neck. Vase .3 (with the
scene "Telemachus, in the deserts of Oasis,
is consoled by Temosiris, Priest of Apollo")142 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES