Each of baluster form, the bodies painted to one side with reclining semi-nude maidens in landscapes after Boucher, the other side with bouquets of flowers, all in frames of gilt oak leaves, flanked by scroll and bead handles, the shoulders with overlapping rings of berried laurel, with white beaded upper rim, the domed covers with pinecone finials, on conforming socles with molded gilt laurel rims and on square ormolu plinths
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Sir Walter Rockcliffe Farquhar, 3rd Baronet (1810-1902), Polesden Lacey, thence by decent, sold,
Bonhams, London, 6 July 2021, lot 127.

R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, p. 788-189, no. C484, commentary.

Bethnal Green Museum, London, circa 1929.

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Lot Essay

The scenes of maidens on the present lot are both taken from engravings by Gilles Demarteau of François Boucher's Académie de femme endormie and Vénus endormie, illustrated in P. Jean-Richard, L'œuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, p. 196, no. 714, and pp. 198-199, no. 730.

Dame Rosalind Savill posits that the original porcelain covers for this pair of vases may have been made into gilt-bronze mounted candlesticks now in the Wallace Collection. See R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, p. 788-189, no. C484 for a further discussion of the adaptation.