Pair “Old Paris” Porcelain Vases with Yellow Ground and Garlands of Flowers, about 1816–20
Dagoty & Honoré, Paris (active 1816–20)
Porcelain, painted and gilded, with iron tie-rods (for assembly)
11 3/8 in. high
Signed (with red stencil mark, twice, on bottom of each): P. L. Dagoty / & / E. Honoré / à Paris
This pair of urn-shaped porcelain vases bears the stenciled mark of the firm of Dagoty & Honoré that was used during their four-year partnership from 1816 to 1820 (see Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelain of Paris 1770–1850 [New York: Walker and Company, 1972], p. 332). In fact, while the Dagoty and Honoré families were, both independently and together, producing porcelain in Paris from the Napoleonic Year VI (1792–93) until 1865, the partnership of Dagoty & Honoré lasted for a relatively short time. The careers of Dagoty and Honoré are chronicled by various marks, which are sometimes handpainted in gold or red, but are most frequently stenciled in red, as on the present pair of vases. (For a detailed description of Dagoty and Honoré’s marks, and chronologies of their careers, see ibid., pp. 222–28.)