Covered bowl and stand
Sèvres Manufactory
(France)
1759–60
Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gold
DimensionsOverall (bowl with cover): 11.5 x 17 x 13.8 cm (4 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Other (stand): 3.6 x 20.2 cm (1 7/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Other (stand): 3.6 x 20.2 cm (1 7/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.1785a-c
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBefore 1910, sold by Duveen Brothers, New York, to J. Pierpont Morgan (b. 1837 - d. 1913), New York [see note 1]; March 22-25, 1944, J. Pierpont Morgan estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 626, sold to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
NOTES:
[1] J. P. Morgan inventory numbers P.M. 1703A-1703C remain on the undersides of the cover, bowl, and stand. The very early history of this ècuelle and stand is unknown. Xavier Roger Marie de Chavagnac, in his Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan (Paris, 1910), p. 84, cat. no. 100, suggests that they were purchased from the Sèvres Manufactory by a M. de Verdun in 1758. Jeffrey H. Munger, The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1992), cat. no. 125, rejects this hypothesis, noting however that two pink and green ècuelles and stands were purchased from Sèvres by Madame de Pompadour in December, 1760.
NOTES:
[1] J. P. Morgan inventory numbers P.M. 1703A-1703C remain on the undersides of the cover, bowl, and stand. The very early history of this ècuelle and stand is unknown. Xavier Roger Marie de Chavagnac, in his Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan (Paris, 1910), p. 84, cat. no. 100, suggests that they were purchased from the Sèvres Manufactory by a M. de Verdun in 1758. Jeffrey H. Munger, The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1992), cat. no. 125, rejects this hypothesis, noting however that two pink and green ècuelles and stands were purchased from Sèvres by Madame de Pompadour in December, 1760.
