15929967290001312637261000Standard Recordobject-82541170249423015216098600650001702494119290fitz-onlineadlib-object-82541https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8254144300eb1-d90f-33ec-a965-2e745b14e5db7referenceagent-178544adlib-agent-1785444038e927-d2b6-3fab-be3f-3b3906f0c125Pompadour, Madame dereferenceagent-174511adlib-agent-17451108f45d1a-fd5c-3b6b-8c5f-a05374801845Duke of Kentreferenceterm-37637adlib-term-3763789b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecbsoft-paste porcelainbluereferenceterm-32638adlib-term-3263897b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2benamelreferenceterm-39593adlib-term-39593e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312dgoldDecorationin blue enamelreferenceterm-106226adlib-term-106226194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815paintingreferenceterm-28681adlib-term-28681c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559gildingDiametercm10.3FootHeightcm24Over Coverreferenceterm-115adlib-term-11594d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8NatureApplied ArtsSoft-paste porcelain pot-pourri vase and cover, painted in blue enamel with sprays of flowers, and gilded.Soft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, lead-glazed, and painted in blue enamel, and gilded. The urn-shaped vase stands on a circular pedestal foot with a moulding round the foot. The ogee-domed cover is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a large and a small carnation on a stem. The shoulder of the vase, and the cover, are each pierced with six oval apertures surrounded by stylised foliage in low relief. The shoulder of the vase is at a slightly lower level that the rest of the body and is divided from it by a gold band with curves below the apertures. The white ground is decorated with sprays of flowers in bleu camaïeu, and the carnation finial is touched with blue. There are two bands of gilding round the foot and serrated bands round the junction of the foot and body and round the lip and on the edge of the cover. The moulding round the apertures and the stem of the finial are gilded.
A pair with C.13.2 & A-1947.C.13.1 & A-19471accession numberC.13.1 & A-194782541priref82541urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82541https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82541on base of vasein blue enamelinterlaced Ls enclosing A with a crown abovefactory markon base of vaseincised3incised markreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumGiven by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceagent-149645adlib-agent-14964510925b71-6838-30f7-a8dd-b68a2afaa14dThe Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum194719471947givenEntry date: 1947-1017531753CE175317531754The date letter A assigned in 1845 to 1753, more recently to 1753 and part of 1754, and in 2014 proposed by Peters as indicating 175411754CE17541754factoryreferenceagent-140732adlib-agent-1407321cccf6bc-5e51-3e11-a849-d05785821974Vincennes Porcelain Manufactorydesignerreferenceagent-161376adlib-agent-1613768a52f5ad-6cc1-379e-a293-b3015f8543deDuplessis, Jean-Claude Chambellan, pèreThis is a pot-pourri Pompadour of the third size. The form was designed by the goldsmith and bronze-founder, Jean-Claude Duplessis, who worked for Vincennes and Sèvres between c. 1748 and 1774.This vase and its pair may have been the two mentioned in a garde robe of the Hôtel de Pompadour in the probate inventory of Madame de Pompadour in 1764, see Documentation.referenceterm-106496adlib-term-106496bd563695-7339-3178-a8c4-25189907099318th Century, Mid#referenceterm-15538adlib-term-15538e4001da7-ed48-3271-a6fb-c7f54095a1adLouis XVreferenceterm-113744adlib-term-113744da105475-9705-3ee7-94ad-24892e6217d4literalFranceFrancecountryliteralVal-de-MarneVal-de-MarneregionVincennesreferenceterm-129470adlib-term-1294708353db27-fba9-33c1-94a1-f268fd2a2d21literalFranceFrancecountryParisreferenceterm-107733adlib-term-10773300160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4lead-glazereferenceterm-37637adlib-term-3763789b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecbsoft-paste porcelainDiametercm14.8referencemedia-53537adlib-media-5353738f24616-63dd-3d5b-9ce4-017ab1e3bed6jpegaa/aa23/C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels627widthpixels76016162491092281imagejpegaa/aa23/mid_C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels413widthpixels50016162491092281imagejpegaa/aa23/C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels627widthpixels76016162491092281imagejpegaa/aa23/preview_C_13_1_20_26_2013_2_20_26_20A_1947.jpg1heightpixels206widthpixels25016162491092281image0media
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imagereferenceterm-89257adlib-term-892572707da46-9e7a-3109-9af7-6b0e5d567eeepot-pourri vasereferenceterm-107478adlib-term-10747881002e74-5083-37b8-a429-4a303fc40695coverfactory namepot-pourri Pompadourhistory noteThe late Duke of Kent; Christie's, 13 March 1947, Old English Furniture and Fine Porcelain, the property of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, p. 13, lot 163; the Antique Porcelain Company, from whom purchased in October, 1947 by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum1referenceobject-82542adlib-object-82542c8da53d3-f05a-3a6c-8814-fa7b99a85d761reference1term-89257adlib-term-892572707da46-9e7a-3109-9af7-6b0e5d567eeepot-pourri vasepot-pourri vasereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. p. 13, lot 163p. 13referencepublication-3649adlib-publication-3649b128d330-e62e-36f9-a7a3-560e5e353508Old English Furniture and Fine Porcelain, the property of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KentPubl. p. 5, lower leftp. 5referencepublication-135adlib-publication-13520a25284-199c-3f18-91f0-7734d47d8962Friends of the Fitzwilliam, Thirty-ninth Annual Report, for the Year 1947Publ. pp. 36-49, on p. 42, both vases.pp. 36-49referencepublication-200001236adlib-publication-2000012369b874fca-2cd8-30bb-bbf8-947f03505897Madame de Pompadour et Vincennes/Sèvres, Chronologie d'une PassionRef. For the pair of vases which were in the garde robe of the Hotel de Pompadour, see p. 39, no. 381.39referencepublication-3676adlib-publication-36760658d0bc-de4e-387a-8012-3833a87db6d5Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour rédigé après son décèsRef. pp. 93-4, for the shape pot-pourri Pompadour, and see nos. 226-233, examples with different decoration.pp. 93-4referencepublication-3134adlib-publication-31343aca7c2c-770f-3903-8496-0510265bed08Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de SèvresRef. For the shape's history and other examples, see I, pp. 127-134, the Fitzwilliam Museum example mentioned on pp. 128 and 129 as possibly from a garde-robe of the Hotel de Pompadour, and on p. 132, under Shape A, third size, (g). The Wallace examples C.239-40 are 1756 with later decoration.pp. 127-34referencepublication-2709adlib-publication-2709e4899c4a-b889-3004-9341-697b98920a9fThe Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres PorcelainCf. One with blue floral sprays and ormolu mounts, formerly in the Burdett Coutts collection, and later Wilfred J. Sainsbury Collection, see p. 5, fig. VI without mounts, and fig. VII with mounts. Mark interlaced Ls and dot3-8referencepublication-200001233adlib-publication-200001233b1537651-1d4d-344c-a2b9-f900cb24d80dVincennes Porcelainreferencepublication-3650adlib-publication-3650a6c9b778-9484-30c5-8834-65c60bb2e6baImportant Continental Porcelain and PotteryCf. pp. 99-101, a pot-pourri Pompadour of the third size decorated in blue camaïeu floral garlands and birds. The authors provide information about the form, and the sales of vases decorated in blue camaieu in 1754 and 1755. The Fitzwilliam's pair are mentioned on p. 99 as possibly those listed in the garderobe of Madame de Pompadour99-101referencepublication-2724adlib-publication-2724e1cfd19f-1a09-348b-8813-f71b68d85f84French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan CollectionCf. p. 262, lot 428, a pot-pourri Pompadour of the third size painted in blue, c. 1752, and mounted in ormolu slightly later. Estimate $4-6,000. This is the example from the Sainsbury Collection mentioned above. The Fitzwilliam's examples are mentioned.262referencepublication-5821adlib-publication-582194ff8ef3-49fd-3381-b39f-ee376ddc0509The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company of New York, Important European Ceramics and Objects of Vertureferencepublication-7713adlib-publication-771313ecce43-21cf-3376-aa97-9167d26f86b9An examination of Vincennes and early Sèvres date letters. A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014referenceterm-9010adlib-term-9010ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6Rococoplantreferenceterm-107622adlib-term-107622523e46be-6c51-3455-8391-3ea334aab2f0flowersplantreferenceterm-108450adlib-term-1084502abaabcd-7ef8-3781-b95a-52e78269140acarnationliteralflowersflowersliteralcarnationcarnationreferenceterm-89257adlib-term-892572707da46-9e7a-3109-9af7-6b0e5d567eeepot-pourri vasepot-pourri vasesoft-paste porcelain, thrown, pierced, lead-glazed, painted in blue enamel and gilded; the flower finial hand-modelledreferenceterm-120062adlib-term-120062d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206lead-glazingPot-pourri Pompadourobject
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