Pot pourri vase
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Date
1760 - 1830
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain, ormolu, gilt, enamels
Measurements
480 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Sèvres
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 137434
Summary
Vase potpourri, porcelain and ormolu, a seated putto, porcelain, after a marble by Augustin Pajou (1730-1809), with a later turquoise glaze, holding a gilt metal birdcage, raised on a chamber pot (handle missing), porcelain, painted with oval reserves of floral bouquets on a bleu celeste ground, with two ormolu rams’ head handles and on three gilt metal tortoises on a stand, soft-paste porcelain, rose marbre ground with swags in reserves and a trophy of a bow and quiver inscribed ‘OMNIA VINCIT AMOR’, from Virgil's Ecologues. Elements made by the Sèvres porcelain factory, France, part dated 1761, with painter's mark for Francois Binet. The whole likely assembled c. 1820-30, probably in the London workshop of Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845).
Makers and roles
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory , factory Francois Binet (fl. 1750 - 1775), ceramicist probably Edward Holmes Baldock (1777 - 1845), dealer after Augustin Pajou (1730 - 1809), sculptor
References
Du Boulay, 2000: Anthony du Boulay, French Porcelain at Uppark. A Re-assessment. London: French Porcelain Society, 2000., Fig. 7; p.7