AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE BEAU BLEU VASES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE') THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR L.-J. THEVENET PERE, THE VASES OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE, THE MOUNTS DIRECTOIRE, CIRCA 1795 Comprising two laurel-draped beau bleu urns with gadrooned necks, flanked by either partially or entirely gilt scroll handles, on a pair of tapering bleu lapis square pedestals painted with pendant flower garlands 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high Provenance Collection Alphonse de Rothschild. Collection Edmond de Rothschild, no. 484. Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 4475 a, b). Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the ‘Lager Peter’ salt mines, Alt Aussee, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 615/1), 24 June 1945. Repatriated to France, 19 September 1946. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 March 1979, lot 227. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25-26 October 1994, lot 261. The Valentine Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2005, lot 114.
AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE BEAU BLEU VASES (VASES 'CHENE A GUIRLANDES') ON TAPERING SQUARE PEDESTALS (PIEDESTALS 'EN GAINE') THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR L.-J. THEVENET PERE, THE VASES OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE, THE MOUNTS DIRECTOIRE, CIRCA 1795 Comprising two laurel-draped beau bleu urns with gadrooned necks, flanked by either partially or entirely gilt scroll handles, on a pair of tapering bleu lapis square pedestals painted with pendant flower garlands 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high Provenance Collection Alphonse de Rothschild. Collection Edmond de Rothschild, no. 484. Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 4475 a, b). Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the ‘Lager Peter’ salt mines, Alt Aussee, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 615/1), 24 June 1945. Repatriated to France, 19 September 1946. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 March 1979, lot 227. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25-26 October 1994, lot 261. The Valentine Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2005, lot 114.
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