Auction Closed
October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A pair of Sèvres gilt-ꦦbronze mounted blue nouveau vases and covers, circa 1770-1775
each cup-shaped bodies applied with oval medallions of putti with various attributes suspended from laurel swags entwined around a plain and gilt reeded band to ✨the waisted neck, the cover spirally gadrooned below a ball finial, the stem and lower part spirally fluted above a columnar spreading base supported bꩲy a gilt-bronze base with berried wreath cast above a square section base with elongated fretted panels
height 16½in.; 42 cm.
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Pair𓃲e de vases couverts en porcelaine à fond bleu de la Manufacture de Sèvres et monture de bronze doré, vers 1770-1775
height 16½in.; 42 cm.
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Partridge Fine Art, 2008.
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Partridge Fine Art, 2008.
Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, pp. 400-403, illustrates a turquoise vase of this form p. 402, no. C320, together with a drawing of the shape from the Sèvres archives inscribed 'vase urne Boileau', although she notes that this is probably a 19th century title, and that the shape is more likely the 'vase à flame', a form introduced in 1770,💞 with a flame finial rather than a ball finial.
The present vases are discussed by Savill, ibid., p. 400 and 401, who notes that they bear ball knops rather than the flamiform knop on the Wallace Collection ex🔯💙ample, and compares the cherub decoration, which on one of the present vases is almost identical in design to that found on the Wallace vase.
The present pair and the Wallace Collection example aside, only one other vase of this shape appears to be recorded: a green-ground example, possibly from the Demidoff and Hodgkins Collections, for which Savill gives, ibid., p. 403, note 2(b) the auction history, culminat♏ing in its sale at Georges Petit, Paris, May 19, 1924, lot 48. This vase was ꦍexhibited at the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, in London, by Adrian Sassoon, June 2006.
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