A PAIR OF PARIS (LEFEBVRE) MATTE DARK BLUE AND BROWN AND GOLD-GROUND VASES (VASES 'FUSEAUX')

CIRCA 1810, ONE SIGNED P. BEL

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A PAIR OF PARIS (LEFEBVRE) MATTE DARK BLUE AND BROWN AND GOLD-GROUND VASES (VASES 'FUSEAUX')
Circa 1810, one signed P. BEL
Each of attenuated oviform, the handles as sphinxes with baskets of fruit on their heads seated atop tapering pilasters, painted front and back with mythological scenes reserved within burnished gilt medallions on the matte brown ground further gilt and ciselé with the winged angel heads, the matte-blue neck and lower portion similarly decorated with smoking braziers between winged lions with eagle heads seated on brackets and balancing baskets of fruit on their heads and with overlapping acanthus, the shoulder chased with fruiting vine
26 1/8in. (66.3cm.) high, including Belgian marble bases (2)

Lot Essay

The attribution to Lefebvre is based on a stylistic comparison with examples known to be by the firm, in particular a pair of gold ground vases Fuseau in the Grand Trianon at Versailles of similar form and also raised on Belgian marble bases. Cf. Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïance et porcelaine de Paris, XVIII^. - XIX^. siècles, Paris, 1995, color plate opposite p. 328, fig. 313

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