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French 17th Century Nevers 'Bleu Persan' Faience Jardiniere With à La Bougie Decoration
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc.
Downingtown, PA
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French 17th Century Nevers 'Bleu Persan' Faience Jardiniere,
à la bougie Decoration,
Circa 1660-80
The circular Nevers faience jardiniere has …
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French 17th Century Nevers 'Bleu Persan' Faience Jardiniere,
à la bougie Decoration,
Circa 1660-80
The circular Nevers faience jardiniere has two large thick twisted rope handles. The jardiniere with a Persian blue color and the exterior is painted à la bougie meaning white blotches like candle wax. The foot flared from a cinched The interior is blue. The body is slightly concave and narrows to a narrow base with a flared foot. The base is unglazed and has three drainage holes.
Dimensions: 12 1/4 inches High x 19 1/2 inches Wide (31.12 cm high x 49.53cm wide); (31.12 cm high x 49.53cm wide)
Condition: To one side the tip of the handle's terminal with a chip. and below o the upper surface of the foot are four chips. On the same side a small chip to the center of the underside of the rim. To the foot of the other side are two chips to the foot. The upper rim with several minor glaze blemishes. There is no restoration.
Faience jardinieres of the present type were used to contain small shrubs or fruit trees in the formal gardens of French chateaux. The prominent handles were both decorative and functional, enabling the easy movement of the pot and its often temperature-sensitive exotic fauna to alternate garden or conservatory locations.
Reference: La Faience de Nevers, 1585-1900, Volume 2, Jean Rosen, Page 288, Fig. 466, for a group of Persian blue wares with à la bougie decoration. To the top right is an identical jardiniere. The group of objects is dated 1660-80.
The Metropolitan Museum has a fragment of a handle, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917, Accession Number: 17.194.2180, almost identical to this jardiniere, dating it 1670-80. (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194468)
The V & A Museum has a pair of similar Persian blue jardinieres with different feet and decorations (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1156287/jardiniere-unknown/)-ACCESSION NUMBER 372A-1870.
The white splashed blue tin-glaze is characteristic of Nevers but rarely found on a piece of this scale, which is more usually decorated in blue on a pale blue ground in Chinese style. A flower pot of slightly different form, but of similar large scale, is in the collection of Burghley House, Stamford. (https://collections.burghley.co.uk/collection/a-nevers-jardiniere-circa-168090/).
(Ref: NY9974-malp)
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- Dimensions
- 19.5ʺW × 19.5ʺD × 12.25ʺH
- Period
- 17th Century
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Faience
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- No restoration-various frits and chips as expected on faience particularly of this large size. No restoration-various frits and chips as expected on faience particularly of this large size. less
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Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc.
Downingtown, PA
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