Lot 66
  • 66

Manufacture de Sèvres et Auguste Rodin

Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Manufacture de Sèvres et Auguste Rodin
  • VASE SAIGON « LES CENTAURES »
  • signé Rodin (sur la joue) ; inscrit dans la pate P.N. I.33. 9.B. et avec le cachet macaron Sèvres. Manufacture Nationale, France. g. sous le vase

  • porcelaine nouvelle de Sèvres émaillée
  • H. : 29,8 cm ; 11 3/4 in.
  • D. : 16,4 cm ; 6 1/2 in.

Provenance

Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres
Collection particulière, France

Literature

Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, no. 112m, un autre exemplaire reproduit p. 151

Condition

The vase is in excellent original condition. A close inspection reveals only some light time-staining and a couple of tiny natural defects in the enamel where there is slight dust build-up.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Rodin' (on the cheek) ; inscribed 'P.N. I.33. 9.B.' and stamped 'Sèvres. Manufacture Nationale, France. g.' on the underside of the vase, new enamelled Sèvres porcelain. Conceived circa 1891-92, this vase created by Manufacture de Sèvres in 1933-34.