A PARIS MATTE OLIVE-GREEN AND GOLD-GROUND RETICULATED VASE

SIGNED AND DATED EMERIQUE.1818 IN THE LOWER LEFT CORNER OF THE GENRE SCENE

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A PARIS MATTE OLIVE-GREEN AND GOLD-GROUND RETICULATED VASE
Signed and dated Emerique.1818 in the lower left corner of the genre scene
Of flattened and attenuated campagna form, the flaring neck with everted gilt mouth moulded and matte gilt with stiff leaf tips on the polished gold ground, the front finely painted after Etienne Aubry with L'Amour Paternel, reserved on the matte olive brown ground colored in imitation of a bronze patina within gilt bands chased with entrelac, the lower portion pierced with a band of alternate palmettes and lotus, the polished gilt gadrooned body with herm figures emblematic of Winter, the bearded male torsos issuing from acanthus pilasters, wearing polished gilt drapes and holding flaming braziers, the elaborate polished and matte gilt socle as overlapping acanthus terminating at each end in a tight scroll, raised on a lozenge-shaped polished gilt base raise on four polished gilt paw feet and moulded front and back with matte gilt winged angel-heads and on the short sides with bacchic masks
26in. (66cm.) high; 16¾in. (42.5cm.) wide; 107/8in. (27.7cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Arguably the best genre painter of the mid-18th century in France, Etienne Aubry was born in 1745. He died in 1791 at the age of thirty-six. The painting from which the scene on the present vase is taken is now in the collection of the Barber Institute, Birmingham. The porcelain painter Emerique obviously based his rendition on a print, as the has been flipped left to right. Cf. Antita Brookner, Greuze, Greenwich, CT, 1972, fig. 101.

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