Keywords: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory - One of a Pair of Vases (Vase à feuilles de laurier) - Walters 48626.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Manufacture nationale de Sèvres This vase and its pair Walters 48 625 are in bleu nouveau and have handles in the form of rings of laurel leaves The vases are decorated with panels showing amorous shepherds and shepherdesses Pithou the elder painted these scenes after Francois Boucher's paintings La Musique pastorale and Les Amusements de la campagne 1743 1772 soft-paste porcelain cm 32 6 accession number 48 626 38481 Collection of Sir Anthony Rothschild according to Hodgkins remains to be verified E M Hodgkins Collection Paris no 51 date and mode of acquisition unknown A Seligmann Rey and Co New York Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1928 Factory Mark Intertwined Lls; Date Letters T 1772 ; Modeler's Mark Incised in the glaze PT initials could refer to either Pierre-Edmond Tristant aîné c 1741-1788 a turner repairer and sculptor of soft and hard paste; or Philibert Choulet aîné op 1756-1779 a turner and possibly repairer of soft and hard paste place of origin Sèvres France Walters Art Museum license Sèvres porcelain in the Walters Art Museum Charles-Nicolas Dodin Nicolas-Pierre Pithou |