A pair of Sèvres (Third Republic) White-Ground Vases, 'vases Stephanus', Circa 1886
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April 4, 04:05 PM GMT
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A pair of Sèvres (Third Republic) White-Ground Vases, 'vases Stephanus', Circa 1886
painted by Eugène Louis Sieffert, of tall slender form, with a flaring rim with a gilt and coral egg and dart band, each painted with a band of frolicking putti, signed E.SIEFFERT./INV., the lower section and wide spreading foot decorated with further gilt and coral bands, printed RF monogram DORE A SEVRES/ 86 in iron-red, S.83 in green-lozenge, incised CJ (?) 83 -9, incised numeral 3
height 20 3/4 in.
52.7 cm
Eugène-Louis Sieffert is recorded as a painter at Sèvres from 1881-1887 and 1894-1898. A chalk and gouache design, circa 1885 signed by Sieffert, for the putti seen on the present vases is retained in the Sèvres archives, Inv. no. 2012.1.4901. The page illustrates how the design may be applied to a pale-ground vase Bullant and a dark-ground vase Stephanus. In 1887 Sieffert painted a vase carafe étrusque and a contemporary photograph of the vase and it's gouache design are retained in the Sèvres archives, Inv. nos. 2012.1.4883 and 2012.1.4949.
The vase Stephanus form was designed by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse in 1880. A Sèvres porcelain pâte d'application vase Stephanus by Taxile Doat, circa 1888, is in the Musée national de céramique de Sèvres, illustrated in Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, p. 303, no. 426. A pair of vases Stephanus painted by Horace Désiré Bieuville, dated 1892, is in the Musée national de céramique de Sèvres.
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