Beschreibung:

A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-RIBBONED FLOWER-POTS AND STANDS FILLED WITH PORCELAIN FLOWERS ON TOLE STEMS (VASES ‘HOLLANDOIS’ 2EME GRANDEUR) THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1758, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E, PAINTER'S MARK FOR JEAN-LOUIS MARIN THE VINCENNES AND OTHER FLOWERS ON LATER TOLE STEMS Each of typical serpentine fan shape set into a shaped oval pierced stand, painted to one side with putti and to the other three with trophies in clouds within gilt-enriched green ribbons 18 ½ in. (46.9 cm.) high, overall Provenance R. Sneyd, Esq.; Phillips, London, 11 June 1849, lot 81 (as part of a garniture of three vases comprising the present pair and a central vase in the larger and more horizontal 1st size). Sir Frederick Adair Roe, Bart.; Christie's, London, 25 & 27 May 1867, lot 173 (£1816,10 to the Earl of Dudley as part of a garniture of three vases comprising the present pair and a central vase in the larger and more horizontal 1st size). The Right Honourable the Late Earl of Dudley; Christie's, London, 21 May 1886, lot 177 (£600 to Davis) [Lot 176 in this sale was the 1re grandeur vase that formed the aforementioned garniture, now paired with a second example of similar size and decoration, sold as lot 176 for £1,353 to Bone]. Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911), Paris. Baron Elie de Rothschild; offered as The Property of a Nobleman (formerly in the collection of Gustave de Rothschild...), Christie’s, London, 30 May 1963, lot 56 (unsold). With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York. Henry Ford II, collection no. B-28-b; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 25 February 1978, lot 44.