Vase d'Alençon, Garlands and Birds in Black and Green

Original Language TitleVase d’Alençon, guirlande et oiseux noire verte

Designer Adolphe Boigegrain (French, active 1922 - 1933)

Decorator Henri Joseph Lasserre (French, 1870 - 1932)

Manufacturer Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1756 - present)

Date1923-1924

MediumHard-paste porcelain with underglaze enamel and gilding

DimensionsOverall: 17 3/16 × 7 1/4 inches (43.66 × 18.42 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: the Charles T. and Marion Thompson Fund

Object number2024.7

InscribedUnderglaze blue enamel on bottom: "HL. d'apres * Boigegrain."

MarkingsOn bottom of vase, two lozenges. Upper lozenge: "S/1923/DA". Lower lozenge: "RF/Decore a Sevres/1924" bracketed by "Manufacture" and "[Nationa]le"

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionCylindrical vase with decorations of swags, foliate forms, and blackbirdsProvenance

Provenance

Manufactured at the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Sèvres, France, 1924, as Vase d’Alençon, guirlande et oiseux noir verte [1];

Private collection, France;

Purchased at Tableaux, mobilier et objets d’art, Jean-Jacques et Delphine Bisman, Rouen, November 24, 2013, by Galerie Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, 2013-2023.

NOTES:

[1] According to documentation at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres archive, this vase and one other with the same design were registered on June 10 and August 11, 1924. See Dossiers documentaires des artistes (Boigegrain); Registres des travaux des peintres, décorateurs, brunisseurs (Lasserre), Vj’128, folios 43 and 44; and Cahier des projets de décor validé par le conseil artistique en 1924, Pb36. Copies are in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.

Published References

Manufacture nationale de Sèvres Archive, Dossiers documentaires des artistes (Boigegrain); Registres des travaux des peintres, décorateurs, brunisseurs (Lasserre), Vj’128, folios 43 and 44; and Cahier des projets de décor validé par le conseil artistique en 1924, Pb36.

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