A PARIS BLUE AND GREEN-GROUND PARCEL BISCUIT CENTERPIECE

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A PARIS BLUE AND GREEN-GROUND PARCEL BISCUIT CENTERPIECE
FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Modelled in the Empire style with two griffins sitting back to back on moulded straw mounds, balancing a pierced oval basket on their heads, the base moulded along the sides and gilt with stylized anthemion, raised on ball feet (fire cracks, crack to basket restored)--18 3/8in. (46.8cm.) high, 15 7/8in. (40.5cm.) wide

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See Porcelain in the Collection of the State History Museum, Moscow, n.p., illus. for an example of this model attributed to the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg with a variant basket and moulded decoration along the side of the base. A third centerpiece with a basket similar to the present example but with the same base moulding as the Russian example, was on the Paris art market in 1991 as part of a three-piece garniture attributed to an unidentified Paris factory.