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Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine (1723-1769

Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine (1723-1769)

 

Frenchman Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769) was a pupil and imitator of of his brother-in-law François Boucher. Baudouin executed idyllic and erotic subjects. His 'La Cueilette des cerises' or the 'Cherry pickers' inspired François Boucher's large painting found at Kenwood in England. It was one of the most famous decorations on Chinese export porcelain, made for the European market around 1775.

 

'La Cueilette des cerises' or the 'Cherry pickers' Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769) (Park 1973, nr. 22)
 

The scene is inspired by a print of the Frenchman Nicolas Ponce (1746-1831), after a design of Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, usually dated around 1775. Frenchman Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769) was a pupil and imitator of of his brother-in-law François Boucher. Baudouin executed idyllic and erotic subjects. His 'La Cueilette des cerises' or the 'Cherry pickers' inspired François Boucher's large painting found at Kenwood in England. It was one of the most famous decorations on Chinese export porcelain, made for the European market around 1775

 

Groeneweg states that in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London the same more basic design of 'The Cherry Picker' - as on this bowl - is already found on a Dutch Delftware spittoon, dated on the rim "1747" and marked "MVP". Since this was only a year after Nicolas Ponce was born, his engraving couldn’t have been the inspiration for this more basic design of 'The Cherry Picker'. Groeneweg proposes that only the later Dutch East India Company, (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) orders from 1778/79 of the The Cherry Picker can be connected with the engraving by Ponce. (Jörg 1978 p.162/annex 11, p.315), (Groeneweg & Braat 1988, pp.18-19), (V&A inv. C.23371910)

 

Lunsingh Scheurleer states that dishes decorated with 'The Cherry Picker' design belonged to the few porcelain that was ordered directly by the Dutch East India Company, (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC). In VOC archieves dating from 1777 this particular design was being refferd to as Appelplukker or appel picker. (Lunsingh Scheurleer 1989, p.217)

2010133A
2010133A

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Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine (1723-1769)

 

Object 2010133A

 

Saucer

 

China

 

After 1777

 

Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 135 mm (5.32 inch), diameter of the footring 78 mm (3.07 inch

 

Saucer on footring, straight rim. Decorated with various overglaze enamels and gold with the 'Cherry Picker' design after Baudouin with a man on a ladder throwing cherries to a woman below, she catches the cherries in her skirt while another (wo)man? kneels besides a large basket and a dog. On the rim a narrow chain pattern border. The reverse is undecorated.

 

For identically decorated objects, please see:

Condition: A firing flaw and two hairlines to the rim.

 

References:

Honey 1944, Plate 139

Goldsmith Phillips 1956, plate 60

Beurdeley 1962, Fig. 27, 28 & 29

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1966, cat. 204

Park 1973, cat. 22, 23 & 24

Gordon 1977, cat. 63

Jörg 1978 p.162/annex 11, p.315.

Jörg 1982/1, cat. 48

Hervouët 1986, cat. 4.23

Groeneweg & Braat 1988, pp.18-19.

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1989, cat. 191

London 1990, lot 173

London 2002, lot 444

V&A inv. C.23371910

 

Price: Sold.

 

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Not illustrated object 2010133B, another identically shaped, sized and decorated sold saucer.

2010585
2010585

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Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine (1723-1769)

 

Object 2010585

 

Bowl

 

China

 

After 1777

 

Height 56 mm (2.20 inch), diameter of rim 110 mm (4.33 inch), diameter of the footring 54 mm (2.13 inch)

 

Bowl on footring, straight rim. Decorated with various overglaze enamels and gold with the 'Cherry Picker' design after Baudouin with a man on a ladder throwing cherries to a woman below, she catches the cherries in her skirt while another (wo)man? kneels besides a large basket and a dog. On the rim a narrow chain pattern border.

 

For identically decorated objects, please see:

Condition: A V-shaped, consolidated, hairline to the rim.

 

References:

Honey 1944, Plate 139

Goldsmith Phillips 1956, plate 60

Beurdeley 1962, Fig. 27, 28 & 29

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1966, cat. 204

Park 1973, cat. 22, 23 & 24

Gordon 1977, cat. 63

Jörg 1978 p.162/annex 11, p.315.

Jörg 1982/1, cat. 48

Hervouët 1986, cat. 4.23

Groeneweg & Braat 1988, pp.18-19.

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1989, cat. 191

London 1990, lot 173

London 2002, lot 444

V&A inv. C.23371910

 

Price: Sold.

 

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