A PAIR OF MASSIVE SVRES COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS (VASES FORME RIMINI)

ONE WITH IRON-RED MONOGRAM MARK FOR 1872, GREEN LOZENGE FOR 1864, INCISED H 64-1 TO BODY AND B Y TO ITS COVER; THE OTHER WITH IRON-RED MONOGRAM MARK FOR 1872

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A PAIR OF MASSIVE SVRES COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS (VASES FORME RIMINI)
One with iron-red monogram mark for 1872, green lozenge for 1864, incised h 64-1 to body and B y to its cover; the other with iron-red monogram mark for 1872
The mottled cobalt-blue ground decorated in the Persian taste in gilt, platinum and teal, the flattened spire finial and domed cover gilt with floral lappets, the everted rim with a band of 'flutes', the neck with arched tracery above a band of guilloches, the sides with vigorously scrolling flowering branches between bands of arabesques, the tapering lower section with stylized leaf-tips, raised on a conforming circular base and gilt bronze canted square base
42in. (108.5cm.) high (2)

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See Brigitte Ducrot, Porcelaines et Terres de Svres, Muse du Chteau de Compigne, Paris, 1993, fig. 357 for a pair of vases of the same form currently in the chteau de Compigne and formerly in the inventory of the chteau de Malmaison, M.M.P.O. 2220 (1 and 2).

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