Painted with a portrait medallion of Charles-Emmanuel of Sardinia, the reverse with a medallion reserving a small still-life of a basket of flowers on a marble ledge, decorated with gilt leafy garlands
7 in. (19.7 cm.) high

Made as pair with a vase depicting his wife Clotilde of France, purchased on 25th November 1778 from the Sèvres factory by the Sardinian Ambassador to France on behalf of the Prince of Piedmont (King of Sardinia from 1796),
Duriez Collection, sold in Paris, 4-24 February 1829, lot 839.
Acquired from Adrian Sassoon, London, 2015.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Sotheby's Paris, 11 October 2022, lot 34.

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Prince Charles-Emmanuel of Savoy (1751-1819), Prince of Piedmont until his accession as King of Sardinia in 1796 married Louis XVI’s sister Madame Clotilde in 1775. His own two sisters had married Louis XVI’s brothers the Comte de Provence in 1771 and the Comte d’Artois in 1773.
In August 1775 Parpette was recorded as being paid 48 livres for painting ‘feurs et fruits’ on a vase à oreilles with a portrait ‘du prince de Piemont [sic]’.

There are two associated vases of the same shape, size and with similar decoration, painted with portraits of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette and with date letters for 1774, in the collection of the Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, illustrated in Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, et. al, Marie Antoinette, exh. cat., 2008, p. 186, nos. 128a, b.