The fluted vase painted with trailing garlands of flowers and a gilt dentil rim flanked by small acanthus-scroll handles terminating a molded corset form on the body, enriched with gilt bands; the plate finely painted with a putto holding bunches of grapes, seated in a landscape, flower sprigs to the border, the shaped rim gilt
5¹⁄₈ in. (13.1 cm.) high, the vase

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 October 1987, lot 157 (the vase).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 April 1994, lot 73 (the vase).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 9 October 2013, lot 621 (the vase).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12-13 December 2017, lot 435 (the vase).
Anonymous sale; Piasa Auctions, Paris, 4 December 2014, lot 58 (the plate).

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First recorded in 1754 in three sizes and in 1755 in six sizes, the form of the present vase is known as a vase cannelé, a vase à cannelures and a vase à corcet. Depending on the decoration, vases of this type cost between 72 and 432 livres. The inventory prepared in the mid-19th century by Alexandre Brongniart, the director of the Sèvres factory since 1800, lists the shape as a gobelet à côtes. See Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, October 14, 1977 - January 16, 1978, p. 140 for a discussion of the shape and an illustration of a pair of similar vases with their covers.