Offered by Baptiste Jamez Fine Arts
Sugar bowl "Calabre" in "porcelaine tendre" with polychrome decoration and gold bouquets of flowers. It hosts a bouquet of porcelain flowers.
LL mark and letter-date GG, for 1784.
Louis XVI period
Eleanor Post Close and Antal Post by Bekessy Collection
Condition report
Completely cleaned, the bouquet did not require restorations other than rare occasions on some égrenures. The gilded bronze mount was simply cleaned. The cup has a small hair at the neck. Exceptional state of conservation of flowers.
MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
• PARIS, MUSÉE DU LOUVRE – "Vase Le Boitteux à bouquet de fleurs" – 1755, soft paste porcelain, Manufacture royale de Vincennes, former Baron Salomon de Rothschild collection.
• PARIS, MUSÉE COGNACQ-JAY – "Candélabre à deux branches garni d’un oiseau et de fleurs (paire)" – circa 1750, Meissen factory and Manufacture royale de Vincennes.
• VERSAILLES, CHÂTEAUX DE VERSAILLES ET DE TRIANON – "Cage à oiseaux dite « de Madame du Barry »," 18th century.
• SÈVRES, MUSÉE NATIONAL DE LA CÉRAMIQUE – "Bouquet de fleurs dans une jardinière", circa 1752, soft paste porcelain, Manufacture royale de Vincennes.
• SÈVRES, MUSÉE NATIONAL DE LA CÉRAMIQUE – Bouquet de fleurs dans une jardinière – circa 1752, soft paste porcelain, Manufacture royale de Vincennes.
• SÈVRES, MUSÉE NATIONAL DE LA CÉRAMIQUE – Deux bouquets de fleurs – soft paste porcelain, Manufacture royale de Vincennes.
• ECOUEN, MUSÉE DE LA RENAISSANCE, CHÂTEAU D’ECOUEN – Jardinière et bouquet – soft paste porcelain, gilt bronze base, former Baron Salomon de Rothschild collection.
• MUNICH, BAYERISCHES NATIONALMUSEUM – Clock – Meissen porcelain figurines, soft porcelain flowers, Manufacture royale de Vincennes Sèvres, circa 1745/50.
• DRESDE, MUSÉE ROYAL – Porcelain bouquet offered to the Grand Elector of Saxony in 1748 – soft porcelain, Manufacture royale de Vincennes.
• NEW-YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART – Chinese with a bird – hard-paste porcelain and soft paste porcelain, circa 1727, circa 1750 for the flowers made by the Manufacture de Vincennes, former collection Jack and Belle Linky.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• BUROLLET Thérèse, "Catalogue des Porcelaines du musée Cognacq-Jay", Paris, 1983.
• HERDA-MOUSSEAUX Rose-Marie, "La Fabrique du luxe : les marchands merciers parisiens au XVIIIe siècle", exhibition catalogue, Paris Musées, 2018.
• LECHEVALLIER-CHEVIGNARD Georges, "La Manufacture de porcelaine de Sèvres", Paris, Renouard - Laurens, 1908.
• LE FOLL Joséphine, "C’est le bouquet ! Quand les fleurs inspirent la céramique", Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud, exhibition catalogue, 2018.
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