The Property of AN EAST COAST INSTITUTION
A MASSIVE SÈVRES GREEN-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VOLUTE KRATER (VASE ÈTRUSQUE À ROULEAUX)

细节
A MASSIVE SÈVRES GREEN-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VOLUTE KRATER (VASE ÈTRUSQUE À ROULEAUX)
CIRCA 1810

With scroll handles incorporating masks and swan-neck terminals, the bulbous form painted in colours with Cephalus and Procris or Adonis and Venus and signed Georget, the reverse with gilt anthemia and silver scrolls, beneath the waisted neck enriched with a wide band of silver and gilt anthemia, scrolling foliage and beaded chains, raised on a gilt-lined domed foot and a gilt square socle (both handles reinforced, restoration to one handle and three swan's neck loop handles, some scratches to gilding)--27½in. (70cm.) high
出版
David R. McFadden [et. al.], L'Art de Vivre Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989, New York, pl. 9
展览
New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, L'Art de Vivre, Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989, March 30 - August 6, 1989

拍品专文

Jean Georget a painter at Sèvres, active 1802-1823.

A similar vase painted with a different scene is in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, a gift of J.P. Morgan (1919.87).