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Ornament from China: sources for a garden folly design by Jean-Jacques Lequeu
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 216-219
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Author:
Choi, Kee Il Jr (Choi, Kee Il Jr)
Subjects
artists:
Lequeu, Jean-Jacques
dates:
1780-1789
media:
Drawings
patrons:
Bertin (1719-93), Henri Léonard Jean-Baptiste
subjects:
Follies / Gardens / French decorative art / Chinese art / Jesuits / Missionaries / Vases / Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory / jeu de bague
subjects:
Sources / Ornament
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Details of the ‘jeu de bague chinois’ at Monceau, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. c.1780. Ink on paper, 44.8 by 34.9 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Design for a ring stand for the ‘jeu de bague’ at Chatou, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. c.1780. Ink, wash and watercolour on paper, 21.9 by 18.2 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
3. Design for the ‘jeu de bague’ at Chatou, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. c.1780. Pencil on paper, 20.4 by 12.4 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Design for a ceramic sculpture of the Daoist immortal Lü Dongbin. Chinese, c.1770. Ink and watercolour on paper, 24.8 by 24.9 cm. (From Recueil de Vases Antiques. et Piéces [sic], tirés des Cabinets Chinois de l’Empereur Kien-Long., pl.8; private collection; photograph by Richard P. Goodbody).
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Design for a ceramic sculpture of a Daoist immortal. Chinese, c.1770. Ink and watercolour on paper, 24.8 by 24.9 cm. (From in Recueil de Vases Antiques. et Piéces [sic], tirés des Cabinets Chinois de l’Empereur Kien-Long., pl.12; private collection; photograph Richard P. Goodbody).