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Vase à bâtons rompus 1764
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground, gilded decoration and gilt bronze plinths | 53 x 29.8 x 19.7 cm (parts .a and .b together) | RCIN 2290
Sèvres porcelain factory
Vase à bâtons rompus 1764
Sèvres porcelain factory
Vase à bâtons rompus 1764
Sèvres porcelain factory
Vase à bâtons rompus 1764
Sèvres porcelain factory
Vase à bâtons rompus 1764
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Sèvres soft paste porcelain vase. Bleu nouveau ground with gilded decoration, oval shape, parasol-shaped cover with oak leaf and acorn finial, angular and curved handles hung with oak garlands, all supported by gadrooned cup with angular decoration above, all on circular stem and foot mounted on square base. Painted shaped reserve of an encampment scene to the front with flower spray on the reverse reserve.
This vase is decorated with military encampment scenes which were a popular decorative theme on similarly shaped Sèvres vases during the 1760s. The scene depicted here is a particularly fine example of Jean-Louis Morin’s painting, executed when he was at the height of his powers (active 1754-87), depicting a brawl outside a sutler’s tent.
The possibility that Morin had first-hand knowledge of camp life when his father was an army surgeon may well account for the convincing look to this scene and the apparent authenticity of some of the colours of the uniforms.
Text adapted from French Porcelain for English Palaces, Sèvres from the Royal Collection, London, 2009Provenance
Part of a three-piece garniture, probably bought by Lord Yarmouth in Paris in 1817, as recorded by Benjamin Jutsham in the Carlton House receipts’ ledger on 9 January 1818: ‘Three Old Seve Vases, Painted in Figures & Trophies Mounted on a Square Gilt Metal Plynth, Centre one Inches high, two side ones Inches high [sic]’. Recorded in 1826 in the Anti Room to the Dining Room, Basement Storey, Carlton House: ‘No.95. A Centre Vase and Cover of blue and gold Seve Porcelain, shaped handles festooned in gilt Oak, and Oak Knob; stem beaded white & fluted blue; rich ormolu plinth; the Centre Compartment painted with Soldiers Quarrelling, the back in flowers – 20 In. high’.
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Medium and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground, gilded decoration and gilt bronze plinths
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53 x 29.8 x 19.7 cm (parts .a and .b together)
53 cm (Height) (with fittings)
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Sèvres [France]