A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS (VASES 'POT-POURRI POMPADOUR', 3EME GRANDEUR), CIRCA 1757, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D, PAINTER'S MARK FOR A.-V. VIELLARD, INCISED 4 TO ONE VASE

A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS (VASES 'POT-POURRI POMPADOUR', 3EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1757, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D, PAINTER'S MARK FOR A.-V. VIELLARD, INCISED 4 TO ONE VASE
Each painted with children in landscapes in the manner of Boucher, one with a little boy teasing birds and a little girl eating a peach, the other with a little boy playing a flute and a little girl making a flower garland, the sides with lovebirds in flight
9 ¾ in. (24.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Wilfred Sainsbury, Esq; Sotheby & Co., London, 21 May 1957, lot 147.
With Winifred Williams, London.
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 17.
Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain from a New England Collection; Christie’s, New York, 5 May 1999, lot 31.