A RICHARD-GINORI COBALT-BLUE GROUND COVERED VASE AND PEDESTAL

LATE 19TH CENTURY, THREE SECTIONS WITH A PRINTED GREEN UPPERCASE MARK AND A, THE SOCLE WITH AN IRON-RED PRINTED OVAL MARK FOR RICHARD-GINORI, THE COLUMN ALSO INCISED P.

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A RICHARD-GINORI COBALT-BLUE GROUND COVERED VASE AND PEDESTAL
Late 19th century, three sections with a printed green uppercase mark and A, the socle with an iron-red printed oval mark for Richard-Ginori, the column also incised P.
The vase finely modelled after the Sèvres form 'vase á bâtons rompus', with oak knop finial and angular S-curved handles suspending oak garlands attached by rings at the shoulder, finely painted with Venus at her bath seated attended by putti and doves within a finely chased gilt surround entwined with a garland and surmounted by amorous trophies, the reverse with a similar panel of a putto riding a dolphin, on a beaded socle and shaped foot, the column moulded with four scantily clad nymphs at the capitol and base flanking panels of trophies, the central section with a beauty admiring her image in a looking glass while standing on an open shell filled with roses and attended by putti, on conforming foot and ormolu base
74in. (187.9cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London 1988, Vol. I, pp. 245-253 for a detailed discussion on this vase form thought to have been designed in the mid-18th century by either Etienne-Maurice Falconet or Claude Duplessis père

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