POSSIBLY BY ALFRED ANDRÉ, PARIS, CIRCA 1860

細節

A PAIR OF RENAISSANCE-STYLE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD VASES
Possibly by Alfred André, Paris, circa 1860
Each on square plinth, the enamelled gadrooned bases set with ruby collets, with strapwork panels above, the centres similarly set, with waisted stem, the blue guilloché enamel body overlain with white scrolls set with emerald, ruby and sapphire collets, with waisted neck and handles formed as a merman and mermaid set with further ruby collets and holding pendant pearls
43/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high (2)

來源

As lot 1.
Rothschild inv. nos. E.de R.293-4.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

These vases appear in a watercolour by Jean-Baptiste Fortune de Fournier (1798-1864). This is extremely important in helping to date the works-of-art by André. Fournier was born in Ajaccio and died in Paris. He worked as a watercolourist for Napoleon III and exhibited at the Salons of 1843 and 1864. Eight interior views of The Tuilleries are recorded by him as well as a portrait of Napoleon III. He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur. The watercolour illustrating the Rothschild vases, as well as three others illustrating mostly jewellery apparently in the collection (see lots 50 and 56), was included in the sale of some of the contents of the château de Ferrières near Paris, the home of Baron James de Rothschild ans his successors, which was rebuilt by Sir Joseph Paxton in 1853-1863.

The design for a similar, but not identical, base of a vase by Vasters is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.3275-1919). In the opinion of Miriam Krautwurst, it is possible that Vasters restored an object for which he had made the design of the base, while the objects themselves appear more likely to be the work of Alfred André.