Charles Percier (1768-1838)

Details

Charles Percier (1768-1838)

Designs for Cassolettes: the first with a ring-handled Tazza supported on a baluster-stem with foliated Capitals and Base framed by paw-footed Herms, the second with a gadroon edged Tazza with arcaded Bowl supported on Struts linked by medallioned-centred Cross-Tiers and the third with a shallow Tazza supported on fluted and tapering Legs linked by a Vitruvian-scrolled Band

black chalk, watercolor
235 x 374mm.

Literature

P. Fuhring, no. 448

Exhibited

Oberlin, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, A New World. Neo Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, 1986, no. 95

Lot Essay

Similar drawings by the artist are in a private collection in Paris and display Percier's interest in the new decoration forms incorporating the classical tripod initiated by James Stuart's design for a candalabrum circa 1757, and first seen in France through works such as Joseph-Marie Vien's designs for a cassolette in La Vertueuse Athénienne of 1763