A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL GILT WHITE AND FAUX-BRONZE CENTERPIECES

1810-1820

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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL GILT WHITE AND FAUX-BRONZE CENTERPIECES
1810-1820
Each as a footed basin rising from a canted triangular base and supported by three winged monopodia sphinxes, the convex sides of the base moulded with opposing hippocamps, the sphinxes and hippocamps painted to resemble patinated bronze
127/8in. (32.5cm.) high; 9¼in. (23.3cm.) diameter (2)

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See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïance et porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, 1995, fig. 193 for a Nast gold-ground centerpiece dated circa 1810 in the collection of the Musée national de Céramique of which the hemispheric basin is raised on a central stem and supported on the heads of three winged monopodia sphinxes very similar to those of the present example.

See Marie-Nöelle Pinot de Villechenon, Sèvres, Porcelain from the Sèvres Museum 1740 - the Present Day, London, 1993, fig. 85 for the Sèvres fruit bowl of 1821 made for the Small Game Service, similarly modeled but with the sphinxes on shorter legs.

The present pair are closer in form to the Nast example but have faces and hair styles more closely related to those of the Sèvres bowl.