Details
Each vase of tapering shaped oval form, the sides with pendant ribbon-tied floral wreaths and swags below panels of gilt trellis against a blue ground, spaced by pilasters of blue flowers on a pink ground headed by shells, the stand pierced on four sides with openings framed by C-scrolls, the sides conformingly decorated with puce rosettes and gilt trellis on blue ground
712 in. (19 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's East, New York, 27 October 1988, lot 240.
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Lot Essay

This vase shape was introduced in three sizes in 1754, with the name of the form evolving from 'à la hollandoise' to 'hollandois' by 1756. For a discussion of the form, and for illustrations of the vases in the Wallace Collection, London, see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. I, pp. 69-91.

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