Sèvres Pair of royal vases called Clodion vases of the third size in Sèvres porcelain of the Charles X period, dated 1827-28, with polychrome decoration of large garlands of flowers, gold decoration of a frieze of palmettes, foliage and foliage...

Sèvres Pair of royal vases called Clodion vases of the third size in Sèvres porcelain of the Charles X period, dated 1827-28, with polychrome decoration of large garlands of flowers, gold decoration of a frieze of palmettes, foliage and foliage scrolls on the shoulder and foot and rosette and palmettes on the neck, the handles raised with gold ground scrolls, decorated with foliage and grapes in relief.they rest on a square base in gilded bronze. Marked: CC interlaced, Sèvres 27 in blue and A. 28 in gold. Charles X period, year 1827-28. H. 25.8 cm. On the bronze base of each vase, mark punched in hollow: letters TU surmounted by a closed crown and accompanied by the inventory number 631, mark and inventory number used for the Tuileries Palace under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. PROVENANCE: Delivered to Charles X, King of France in December 1828. Present in the Princess Marie d'Orléans' study in the Tuileries Palace in 1833. CATALOGUE NOTE: The shape of the Clodion vase was created in Sèvres in 1803, derived in five sizes. It is not certain whether Claude Michel, known as Clodion, who collaborated with the Sèvres manufactory at the beginning of the 19th century, is the author of this vase shape or whether his name was given to the vase as a tribute to the sculptor, who was very close to the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, father of the new director of the porcelain manufactory. Our vases were delivered for the service of King Charles X to the General Intendance of the King's House on December 5, 1828, described as follows: "2 Clodion vases 3rd size crowns of flowers" at the price of 300 francs. (Arch. Sèvres, cité de la céramique, register Vv1, f° 345, n° 14). They are accompanied by another pair of vases of the same shape and decoration but of the fourth size, most probably those recently sold at public auction in New York (Christie's, New York, 18 October 2012, lot 179, H 20 cm) The inventory number on the gilded bronze bases can be identified in the inventory drawn up in 1833 at the Tuileries castle in the "Apartment of Princess Marie / Study / 631 - Two vases in Etruscan form, Sèvres porcelain, white background, garlands of flowers hr. 24 c" and prized 40 francs (Paris, Arch. Nat. Aj19 169 / Tuileries / 1833). Marie Christine Caroline Adélaïde Françoise Léopoldine d'Orléans, known as Marie d'Orléans, French princess and, by her marriage, Duchess of Württemberg (1837), was born in Palermo on 12 April 1813. She is the second daughter of Louis-Philippe I (1773-1850), King of the French, and Queen Marie-Amélie de Bourbon (1782-1866), Princess of the Two Sicilies (A. Dion-Tenenenbaum (ed.), Marie d'Orléans, 1813-1839, Princess and Romantic Artist, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2008). A pair of vases of the same shape, size and similar painting was made in Sèvres in 1834 and delivered to the Palais de Compiègne where it is still kept (B. Ducrot, Porcelaines et terres de Sèvres, Musée nationale du château de Compiègne, catalogue, Paris, 1993, no. 86, p. 137). These last vases are photographed in 1909 on the fireplace in Marie-Antoinette's bedroom at the Château de Compiègne, apartments of the Queen and then the King of Rome (Donation René-Jacques, Ministry of Culture, Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, inv. 68L03819). Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.