TWO SEVRES (NAPOLEON III) PORCELAIN PATE D'APPLICATION CELADON-GROUND VASES (VASE CYLINDROIDE A TETE DE LIONS)

DATED 1854-1857, GREEN LOZENGE AND IRON-RED CROWNED N DECORÉ MARKS, INCISED POTTER'S C 8 54 AND B-57-1

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TWO SEVRES (NAPOLEON III) PORCELAIN PATE D'APPLICATION CELADON-GROUND VASES (VASE CYLINDROIDE A TETE DE LIONS)
DATED 1854-1857, GREEN LOZENGE AND IRON-RED CROWNED N DECORÉ MARKS, INCISED POTTER'S C 8 54 AND B-57-1
Of cylindrical form with lion-mask handles; one finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a maiden before a fountain; the other painted front and back with either a maiden grasping a putto below the word VENIT or freeing a putto below the word FVGIT
10 5/8 in. (26.9 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The present vases possibly correspond to two of three 'vase cylindroides à tête de lion fond celadon figure de femmes en pâte d'application' delivered on 30 January 1858 to either the mobilier de la Couronne (two delivered) or the Château Saint-Cloud (one delivered). See registre Vbb 12, folio 183 in the archives at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. Two others that likely possibly correspond to this delivery were sold Christie's, New York, 18 November 2014, lot 111. The present vase with the fountain appears to be the mate to one of this pair.

A pair of pâte-sur-pâte vases designed and decorated by Louis Solon, also inscribed in Latin 'FUGIT' or 'VENIT' were sold Christie's, 21 October 2008, lot 17.

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