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A pair of Sèvres gilt-bronze mounted blue nouveau vases and covers, circa 1770-1775

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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 EUR

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A pair of Sèvres gilt-bronze 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 by 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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Paire 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.

Probably the pair with the Antique Porcelain Company cited Rosalind Savill, Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. I, pp. 400 and 403.

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 example, 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, culminating in its sale at Georges Petit, Paris, May 19, 1924, lot 48. This vase was exhibited at the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, in London, by Adrian Sassoon, June 2006.