Bloemenvaas (cuvette Mahon) Flower Vase (cuvette Mahon), Manufacture de Sèvres, c. 1761

Identification

Title(s)

Bloemenvaas (cuvette Mahon) Flower Vase (cuvette Mahon)
Bloemenvaas (cuvette à la Mahon of cuvette Mahon)

Object type

jardinière

Object number

BK-17512

Description

Ovale jardiniere van veelkleurig beschilderd porselein, met een blauwgroene fond. De jardiniere heeft een geschulpte rand en naar binnen gebogen korte zijden. De vier poten hebben de vorm van bladeren in rocaille-vorm en zijn deels verguld. Op beide lange zijden is een medaillon geschilderd een met een Teniers-scene: vier mannen en een vrouw rond een tafel voor een huis en in de ander bloemen en vruchten.

Creation

Artist

porcelain company: Manufacture de Sèvres
designer: Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis
after print by: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
after painting by: David Teniers (II)

Place

Sèvres

Dating

c. 1761

Material and Technique

Material

Measurements

height 18 cm × width 27 cm × length 16 cm
width 20 cm × depth 10.3 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, the Rt. Hon. Lord Brownlow (Belton House, Grantham), London (Christie’s), 14 March 1929, no. 58, £220 10 s, to the dealer Duveen;{Copy RMA.} from whom, $12,500, to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1929;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series II.I, Collectors’ files: Mannheimer, F., ca. 1924-1948, image 180, probably an invoice to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 9 November 1929, no. 29487 and image 171, a Memorandum of Shipment to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 12 December 1929.} purchased from his estate, 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

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Notes

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.

Relations

Documentation

Paris 1650-1900: decorative arts in the Rijksmuseum, Reinier J. Baarsen, p. 296-299, cat.nr. 72
French porcelain in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Geoffrey De Bellaigue, p. 141
Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain, Adrian Sassoon, cat.nr. p. 74
Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten, Franz Kieslinger, p.205, cat.nr. 454
Katalog der Sammlung F[ritz] M[annheimer], Otto von Falke, p. 302, cat.nr. Po.153
Barry Shifman, 'Eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain : two rare cuvettes Mahon', Apollo 121 (1985), p. 28.

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