A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED MEDECI VASES

1815-1820, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY NAST OR DARTE FRERES, GILT LOWER CASE MARKS FOR THE DECORATING HOUSE OF JEAN-PIERRE FEUILLET, RUE DE LA PAIX

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A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED MEDECI VASES
1815-1820, the porcelain probably Nast or Darte Freres, gilt lower case marks for the decorating house of Jean-Pierre Feuillet, rue de la Paix
Each campagna vase with polished gilt everted mouth and socle foot, raised on a further square white base, the slightly flaring cylindrical neck painted in colours with a continuous rural landscape, one with figures fishing a stream as it meanders beside the ruins of a grand palace, the other a more pastoral view, perhaps taken from the other bank and showing the other side of the same ruins, gilt along the shoulder with Vetruvian scrolls and pendant flowers, bracket handles issuing from gilt biscuit bearded masks at the shoulder
131/8in. (33.4cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The son of the pastery chef for the prince de Condé, Jean-Pierre Feuillet (1777-1840) learned to paint at the school founded by the prince at his chateau outside Paris in Chantilly. On 20 July 1814, Feuillet set up shop in Paris on the rue de la Paix, under the protection of the prince. Feuillet gained a reputation as one of the best porcelain decorator's in the city, and this at the height of production in Paris. He used blanks from a variety of manufacturers including Nast and the Darte Frères, two of the best. The handles on the present vases with their finely undercut bearded masks are typical of the pieces produced by these premier firms.

See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïance et porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe - XIXe siècles, Paris, 1995, p. 360, figs. 259, 346, 348.