A LARGE FRENCH EARTHENWARE TAPERING OVIFORM VASE EMBLEMATIC OF NIGHT designed by Louis Carrier Belleuse, moulded with the naked figure of Sleep resting on a bed of narcotic poppies with petals and leaves textured in relief, the reverse with Urania clad in blue drapery gazing at the night sky through a telescope and balancing a globe held by a boy, another maiden drawing a map of the sky, the neck moulded with playful putti darting among clouds, stars and moons with human features, one putto with his foot caught in the moon's mouth, on a spreading foot (restoration to foot, slight glaze crack to interior on base), signed, impressed numbers 1613 8/96 M3 B, late 19th Century

A LARGE FRENCH EARTHENWARE TAPERING OVIFORM VASE EMBLEMATIC OF NIGHT designed by Louis Carrier Belleuse, moulded with the naked figure of Sleep resting on a bed of narcotic poppies with petals and leaves textured in relief, the reverse with Urania clad in blue drapery gazing at the night sky through a telescope and balancing a globe held by a boy, another maiden drawing a map of the sky, the neck moulded with playful putti darting among clouds, stars and moons with human features, one putto with his foot caught in the moon's mouth, on a spreading foot (restoration to foot, slight glaze crack to interior on base), signed, impressed numbers 1613 8/96 M3 B, late 19th Century

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A LARGE FRENCH EARTHENWARE TAPERING OVIFORM VASE EMBLEMATIC OF NIGHT designed by Louis Carrier Belleuse, moulded with the naked figure of Sleep resting on a bed of narcotic poppies with petals and leaves textured in relief, the reverse with Urania clad in blue drapery gazing at the night sky through a telescope and balancing a globe held by a boy, another maiden drawing a map of the sky, the neck moulded with playful putti darting among clouds, stars and moons with human features, one putto with his foot caught in the moon's mouth, on a spreading foot (restoration to foot, slight glaze crack to interior on base), signed, impressed numbers 1613 8/96 M3 B, late 19th Century
30½in. (77.5cm.) high

拍品專文

The son of Albert Carrier Belleuse, Louis-Robert (1848-1912) became Art Director at the Choisy-le-Roi factory; his work includes terracotta busts and mythological subjects.