A pair of Sèvres porcelain ice-pails, covers and liners, 1825

A pair of Sèvres porcelain ice-pails, covers and liners

1825

(glacière vase AB), of Etruscan form, painted with named Spanish and Swiss topographical views within rectangular cartouches, titled in black script "Vue de Dornach-au-pont", "Aqueduc près de L’alhambra", the other with "Monastere du Mont-serrat" and "Château de Dornach", on a purple ground painted in a darker tone and gilt with trellis reserved with quatrefoil flowerhead ornament, above bands of gilt stiff leaves, with flared white rims gilt with bands of palmettes, supported by richly gilt spreading stems and square bases, the covers with gilt knop finials, the purple ground enclosed by borders gilt with meandering leaf tendrils, the plain liners with gilt rims, printed blue interlaced C enclosing fleur-de-lys above Sevres/25, incised marks to liners, traces of gilt mark to one foot

32 cm., 12 1/2 in. high

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