a paris porcelain polychrome centrepiece
1800-1810
(pièce de milieu) in the Empire style, consisting of four scantily clad standing biscuit caryatids upholding an oval pierced ajour basket on their heads, with almond-shaped marbré base, the biscuit sides with neoclassical ornaments above a band of stripes (one hairline crack to the base)
46cm. high and 48.5cm. wide
Lot Essay
See illustration p. 32
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