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- Jaques-François Paris (or Deparis) (1735 - 1797)
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- Vase and Cover
- Vase 'Paris', probably 'Paris de milieu' of the second size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- c. 1779
- C330
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- Bookmarkable URLThe scrolled acanthus-leaf handles of this model are decorated with laurel garlands, a popular motif in neoclassical design. It was named after its designer Jacques-François Paris (op. 1746-97) who introduced several new models in the late 1770s.
Decorated with a ‘beau bleu’ blue ground, the vase is painted on the back with a landscape (probably by Edme-François Bouillat, op. 1758-1810) and a gallant scene (possibly by Nicolas-Pierre Pithou, op. 1759/60-67,1769-95) on the front. The shepherd and shepherdess are after a painting by François Boucher, which may have been available at the manufactory in printed versions by Madame Jourdan and Jacques Bonnefoy.
The cover is possibly a replacement made at Sèvres in the nineteenth century, as the original was missing by 1865.
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- Vase and Cover
- Vase 'Paris', probably 'Paris de milieu' of the second size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- c. 1779
- C331-2
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- Bookmarkable URLThis model was named after its designer Jacques-François Paris (op. 1746-97) who introduced several new shapes in the late 1770s with his name.
The vases are two of the few pieces of hard-paste porcelain in our collection. Hard-paste wares were not introduced at Sèvres until the late 1760s, gradually superseding the more complex and time-consuming soft-paste technique, which the manufactory had perfected during the 1740s, and which was abandoned in 1804.
The elaborate arabesque designs on white ground seem to have been devised for these early hard-paste wares, as they could not yet take the vibrant ground colours associated with their soft-paste products.
Flanked by an arrangement of ornaments and chinoiserie flowers, one vase shows two amorous birds, the trophy above them also symbolizing love with a bow and quiver, while the other vase has the birds nesting in a tree. These themes of love and procreation suggest that the set may have been made on the occasion of a marriage or birth. Details of the design recall the engraving ‘Venus blessé par l’amour’ by Antoine Watteau and Indian chintz flowers influenced by the French designer Jean Bérain.
The decoration is executed in enamel colours and gilding as well as silvering – a technique that was rarely used at Sèvres.
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- Garniture of Three Vases and Covers
- Vase 'E de 1780' of the first size and vases 'E de 1780' of the second size
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1781
- C334-6
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- Bookmarkable URLThis splendid garniture comprises three vases of the same model, set on lion’s paw feet and decorated with acanthus-leaf handles. The unusual name was probably modified in the 19th century from the original title ‘vase Paris de nouvelle forme’ which would suggest that it was designed by Jacques-François Paris (op. 1746-97).
The ‘beau bleu’ blue ground is richly decorated with jewelled enamelling, an elaborate technique which involved the application of enamelled gold-leaf foils to the porcelain. Joseph Coteau (op. 1780-4) perfected the technique at Sèvres and may also have decorated this garniture, but because of his difficult personality, his service at the manufactory terminated after only four years.
The mythological scenes on the front – Pygmalion and Galatea, Primavera with two Cherubs and reclining Bacchus accompanied by two child satyrs – were possibly painted by Charles-Eloi Asselin. They are after compositions by François Boucher and Charles Eisen, which may have been available at the manufactory as printed reproductions. The back reserves show bucolic landscapes, possibly by Edme-François Bouilliat (op. 1758-1810).
Pieces with jewelled enamelling were often given by Louis XVI as diplomatic gifts and this garniture the king presented to Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Frederick the Great, when he was on a diplomatic mission to Paris in 1784.
The gilt-bronze stands are French, possibly eighteenth century.
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- Tray and Tea Service
- Plateau 'Paris', three gobelets 'litron' et soucoupes of the third size, pot à lait 'à trois pieds'
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1779
- C407-13
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- Bookmarkable URLThis tray and tea service derive their name from the designer, Jacques-François Paris (op. 1775-1781). Decorated with foliage and acanthus motifs in relief, the shape of the large tray is based on eighteenth-centuty Dutch delft plaques, probably themselves inspired by Canton enamels.
The novel decoration was devised for early hard-paste porcelain, which had been introduced at Sèvres in the late 1760s. The pieces are painted by Louis-François Lécot, who specialised on chinoiserie scenes on hard-paste and show varied exotic scenes of ships in harbour and the occasional fisherman or monk in a rocky hermitage, while the tray featues a marine battle. Imitating Oriental cloisonné work, some of the rocks and tree trunks are in yellow and red gold and the rims are also gilded with a decorative border of scrolls.
While the decoration is clearly influenced by earlier designs from the Meissen manufactory and seventeenth-century engravings which served to decorate eighteenth-century Dutch Delft plaques, the exact sources have not yet been identified.
The service matches descriptions of Sèvres wares belonging to the duchesse de Mazarin or Louis XVI in Versailles.
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