Lot Essay
These ornamental vases relate to a series of works that date from the late eighteenth centruy and continued until the 1830's. The atelier of Charles-Etienne Thomas (1787-1857) produced reliefs which show a pair of vases similar in their form and decoration (Musée de Dieppe, Inv. 764-765).
An identical pair of vases (with different plinths) from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore is illustrated in R.H. Randall, Jr., Masterpieces of Ivory, 1985, p. 297, fig. 428. Another similar pair from the studio of Louis-Raymond Brunel (1818-1882) is in the Musée de Dieppe (Inv. no. 1221a, b). and a third pair is in the Bayerishes Nationalmuseum, Munich, (Berliner, no. 649).
An identical pair of vases (with different plinths) from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore is illustrated in R.H. Randall, Jr., Masterpieces of Ivory, 1985, p. 297, fig. 428. Another similar pair from the studio of Louis-Raymond Brunel (1818-1882) is in the Musée de Dieppe (Inv. no. 1221a, b). and a third pair is in the Bayerishes Nationalmuseum, Munich, (Berliner, no. 649).