Sèvres blue céleste vase Fontanieu cylindrique. The engraved design for the vase was published by Fontanieu in 1770. The vase is decorated with floral and landscape reserves with very fine gilding. [The stem with an ormolu band probably covering a break. Top lost.]

Dated: "U" - 1773

Painter "S" - Méraud

Ex Collection: Baron James de Rothschild: Paris, Palais Gallièria ; December 1, 1966 - lot 26

See: Svend Eriksen: Early Neo-classicism in France; London, 1974. Pages 449-452 and plate 288 (Most of the vases of this model were sold to the royal family - page 374)