One of a Pair of Vases with Stands (Vases hollandois nouveau ovale)

Military scenes and trophies adorn these flower containers in the green ground listed as "verd" which was one of the early colors at the factory.

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Provenance

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Collection of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), by 1906; inherited by William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (1851–1921); Burdett-Coutts Sale, London, 9-11 May 1922, no. 257 [1]. Collection of Edwin Marriott Hodgkins (1860–1932), Paris, by 1927 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; with A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York, by 1928 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.

[1]. Christie, Manson & Woods, “Catalogue of the Collection of Porcelain Objects of Art and Decorative Furniture of the Late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Lady of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Now sold by Order of the Executors of the Rt. Hon. W. Burdett-Coutts, M.P., Deceased, Late of 1 Stratton Street, W., and Holly Lodge, Highgate,” sale cat., London, 9-11 May 1922, p. 33 and illustrated in plate opposite: “257 A PAIR OF ÉVENTAIL JARDINIÈRES, with apple-green ground finely painted with camp scenes, probably by Morin, military trophies and festoons of flowers, in upright and oblong panels, and the angles gilt with garlands of oak foliage, 1766—11 1/2 in. high, 9 in. wide. See Illustration.”