seau à bouteille)]]> Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | wine coolers (containers) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | landscapes (representations) | floral patterns | plant-derived motifs | trees | hunting]]> Chasses royales de Louis XV (1733–46), a series of Gobelins tapestries designed by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), and regarded as one of Oudry’s masterpieces ((Huntington n.d., no. 27.52; Fritzsche 2018, 14). The wine cooler has a mark on the bottom, consisting of the letter F followed by a dot, which has not been identified. There is a visible crack in the center of the object.]]> Find more information on these hunting scenes, Oudry, and Louis XV, in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.]]> Seau [on] February 2, 1981, Christie’s, London. Subsequently we acquired it from him. At the Baron Schroeder sale, Christie’s July 5, 1910, no. 42, our Seau was already described as ‘faulty,’ and sold for only 600 pounds compared to the 1500 pounds paid for no. 41, ‘Seau à Verre.’ It appears, that at some time in the past our Seau had been broken in two, and was put back together with several small clamps; Williams had them removed.” (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). The complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing here.]]> Complete Bibliography for the Fritzsche Porcelain Collection]]>