A SÈVRES ORMOLU-MOUNTED REPUBLIC FRANAIS COLOURED PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE TWO-TONED MAUVE-GROUND VASE AND COVER, 'VASE BOIZOT'

GREEN STENCILLED POTTER'S MARK FOR 1869, IRON-RED STENCILLED DORÉ MARK FOR 1876, INCISED MARKS TO COVER AND FOOT, PROBABLY BY PIERRE-ADOLPHE DAMMOUSSE

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A SÈVRES ORMOLU-MOUNTED REPUBLIC FRANAIS COLOURED PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE TWO-TONED MAUVE-GROUND VASE AND COVER, 'VASE BOIZOT'
Green stencilled potter's mark for 1869, iron-red stencilled doré mark for 1876, incised marks to cover and foot, probably by Pierre-Adolphe Dammousse
With shallow domed cover and flared button finial, flanked by bracket handles, above the tapering cylindrical body, painted and hand tooled in white slip after the Fontaine fable 'Le Loup et la Cicogne' depicting a crane being out-foxed, enriched with pale-blue glazes within a shell and scroll moulded cartouche suspending rose garlands, the lower body with pendant vines alternating with lappets above shell, on a footed square base applied with floral swags
14¾in. (37.5cm.) high

Provenance

Mr. Bonyorge, 42 Princes Gate, Hyde Park, London, March 1886

Lot Essay

This lot is accompanied by a receipt from A. Henry & Co., shipping agents to the London and North Western Railway.

Cf. Marcele Brunet et Tamara Préaud, Sèvres des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 299, pl. 403 for a discussion on this form and for an identical set of mounts to the present produced by the atelier de montage de Sèvres.

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