Wine bottle cooler
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Date
1790 - 1810
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with enamels and gilt with ormolu mount and base.
Measurements
80 x 173 x 173 mm
Place of origin
Sèvres
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 137411
Summary
Wine bottle cooler (seau à bouteille), soft-paste porcelain on a later base. Blue (beau bleu) ground with gilt arabesque motifs. Large square reserve painted with an image of a shipwreck after Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) and the reverse with a pastoral scene of cattle. Good quality early-19th century ormolu mounts and base. No marks, Sévres Porcelain Manufactory, France, c.1790-1810. The shipwreck image appears to be copied or at least heavily influenced by Vernet's painting The Shipwreck (1772), originally at Wardour Castle, Wiltshire and now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Makers and roles
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , factory after Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789) , artist
References
Boulay, 2000: Anthony du Boulay. “French porcelain at Uppark: a re-assessment.” French Porcelain Society 15 (2000), pp.2-28., p.7