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Potpourri Jar

Designer Louis Poterat (French, 1641 - 1696)
Manufacturer Louis Poterat Manufactory, Rouen, France (French, 1690 - 1696)
Dateca. 1690 - 1696
MediumSoft-paste porcelain with underglaze enamel decoration
DimensionsOverall: 4 7/8 × 4 1/2 inches (12.38 × 11.43 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Lillian M. Diveley Fund
Object number2021.10
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 118
DescriptionMoulded around the base and neck with gadroons, finely painted with lambrequins or broderies and leaf scrolls against a dotted ground, the foot and neck painted with flower heads against a braid of crossed ribbons.Exhibition History

Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 13 2022–August 12 2024, no cat.

Provenance

Dr. Pierre Derocque (1872-1934), Rouen, France, by 1934;

Possibly offered at his posthumous sale, Belles faïences de Rouen; faïences et porcelaines diverse…, Hôtel des Ventes, Rouen, June 11-12, 1934;

OR Possibly by descent to his son, André Derocque (1898-1940), Rouen, or his daughter, Anne Marie Derocque Orange (1897-1974);

Dr. Jacques Petit (1884-1954), Rouen, by 1954;

By descent to his son, Dr. Jérôme Petit (1921-2005), Rouen, possibly 1954-2005;

By inheritance to his wife, Dr. Geneviève Bouveau Petit (ca. 1920-2019), 2005-2019;

Purchased at her posthumous sale, Tableaux anciens céramiques, mobilier, et objets d’art, AuctionArt rémy le fur & associés, Hôtel Drouot, December 4, 2019, lot 241, by Errol Manners, 2019-2021.

Published References

Paul Alfassa et Jacques Guérin, Porcelaines françaises du XVIIe au milieu du XIXème siècle (Paris: Albert Lévy, 1931).

Yves Bottineau-Fuchs, Lindy Grant, Maylis Baylé, Dorothy Gillerman, Michael W. Cothren, and L. E. Neagley. "Rouen." Grove Art Online. 2003; https://doi-org./10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T074162

Collection d’un amateur: Rouen, 1680–1740: De la premiére porcelaine à l’âge d’or de la faience. Sotheby’s Paris, June 18, 2008.

Ann Doridou-Heim, "Panorama (après vente): Rouen en ocre niellé, " La Gazette Drouot, 12 December 2019.

John Fleming and Hugh Honour. "Edmé Poterat," in The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, new edition (London: Viking, 1989; orig. publ. 1977): 648.

John Fleming and Hugh Honour. "Rouen Potteries," in The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, new edition (London: Viking, 1989; orig. publ. 1977): 704–706.
Henry Pierre Fourest, "Origines de la porcelaine tendre en France au XVIIIème siècle," Cahier de la Céramique et des Arts du Feu 16 (1959): 226–243.

Gilles Grandjean, "The Porcelain of Rouen" in Bertrand Rondot, ed., Discovering the Secrets of Soft Paste Porcelain at the Saint Cloud Manufactory, ca. 1690-1766, exh. cat. (New York: Bard Graduate Center for the Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1999): 57–70.

Chris Green. John Dwight’s Fulham Pottery: Excavations, 1971-79. Archaeological Report 6 (London: English Heritage, 1994).


Régine de Plinval de Guillebon. "La marque AP identifiée." L’Estampille/L’Objet d’Art 271 (juillet-août 1993): 72-77.


Régine de Plinval de Guillebon. "Les céramistes du Faubourg Saint Antoine avant 1750. Fabrication et Commerce. Le Point des recherches en 2002."Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de Paris et de l’Île de France, vol. 129 (2002): 1–68.


Chantal Soudée Lacombe. "L’apparition de la porcelaine tendre à Rouen chez les Poterat, l’hypothèse protestante?" Sèvres. Revue de la Société des amis du Musée National de Céramique 15 (2006): 29–35.

J.V.G. Mallet, "Part 6: The Place of ‘Buckingham’ Porcelain in Ceramic History," Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 20, Part 1 (2008), pp. 211- 230

Errol and Henriette Manners, Early French Soft-Paste Porcelain: A Selling Exhibition, February 2021, exh. cat. (London: E&H Manners, 2021): 6–11 (ill.)


Jeffrey Munger, European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018): 135–137

Tableaux anciens, céramiques, mobilier et objets d’art. Rémy le Fur & Associés, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, Wednesday 4 December 2019, lot 241, pp. 172–173 (ill.)

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