Flower vase (cuvette Courteille)

In 1756 the French royal porcelain factory moved from Vincennes to Sèvres. Initially it did not produce true hard-paste porcelain like that from China and the Meissen factory in Germany, but rather an imitation of it (pate tendre, soft-paste porcelain). With its striking colour for the ground, its panel with a painted scene and its elaborate gilding, this vase epitomizes the Sèvres factory’s style during its first decade.

  • Artwork typejardinière
  • Object numberBK-17513
  • Dimensionsheight 15.1 cm x width 25.4 cm x depth 14 cm, width 18.7 cm x depth 10.7 cm
  • Physical characteristicsbeschilderd en verguld porselein (pâte tendre)

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Flower vase (cuvette Courteille)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17513

  • Description

    Jardiniere van veelkleurig beschilderd porselein, met een donkerblauwe fond. De wand is aan de voorkant gewelfd en aan de achterkant vlak. De vier witte poten hebben de vorm van omkrullende bladeren. De twee handvatten hebben de vorm van omkrullend acanthusblad. Op de voorzijde is binnen een medaillon een landschap geschilderd waarin vijf figuren bij een boom en links een vioolspelende jongen. De jardiniere is gemerkt.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • factory mark
    • painter's mark: ‘M’

Creation

  • Creation

    • porcelain company , Sèvres
    • designer: Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis, Sèvres
    • porcelain painter: Jean-Louis Morin, Sèvres

  • Dating

    1760

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    beschilderd en verguld porselein (pâte tendre)

  • Dimensions

    • height 15.1 cm x width 25.4 cm x depth 14 cm
    • width 18.7 cm x depth 10.7 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; from Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 30, no. Por 420, Artistic no. 22/51; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

  • Adrian Sassoon, 'Attributions to Dodin of painted scenes on two remarkable pieces of Sèvres porcelain', The French Porcelain Society Journal 3 (2007), p. 81.

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  • Flower vase (cuvette Courteille)
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