Estate / Collection: French Faïence from the Estate of Sidney R. Knafel sold to benefit the Detroit Institute of Arts

Circa 1690-1700
The baluster form neck with a coat of arms painted below a band of inverted leaf tips, the globular lower portion painted with three variant scenes of children at play, one entitled Le Jeu des Epingles (The Pin Game aka Jacks), each scene separated by a shaped scale-pattern panel.

Height 9 ¾ inches (24.8 cm)

The scenes on the present vase are taken from engravings by Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella after drawings by Jacques Stella from a series entitled The Games and Pleasures of Childhood. Scenes from this series are also known on eighteenth-century Meissen porcelain.

Provenance:

Galerie Christophe Perles Paris.
Sidney R. Knafel, New York, no. 27.

Notes:

Literature:
Christophe Perles, Ceramiques anciennes, Paris, cat. 7, p. 10.
Christophe Perles, French Faience: The Sidney R. Knafel Collection, France, 2016, cat. no. 27.

Doyle is honored to auction French faïence from the Estate of Sidney R. Knafel sold to benefit the Detroit Institute of Arts. Over the course of fifty years, Mr. Knafel assembled the most important private collection of 16th through 18th century French faïence. The upcoming auction on January 25, 2024 features a special offering of exceptional examples from his storied collection. Each of the thirteen lots on offer is illustrated in the landmark 2016 reference book, French Faience: The Sidney R. Knafel Collection (Éditions Mare & Martin: Paris). Property from the Estate of Sidney R. Knafel comprises lots 669 through 681 in the sale.

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