A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES

CIRCA 1810, POSSIBLY CARON ET LEFEBVRE

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A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES
Circa 1810, possibly Caron et Lefebvre
Each oviform vase with handles as biscuit busts of nereids with gilt upright gilt biscuit wings and suported as herms on tapering burnished gilt pilasters, each painted with the portrait of a woman, the reverse chased on the gold ground in the manner of Percier and Fontaine with confronting winged putti extending unto foliate scrolls and balancing a basket of fruit on their heads, the neck and shoulder similarly decorated with dancing nymphs and putti at various pursuits, the shoulder with glazed white beading, on square Belgian marble base
17¾in. (45.1cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The images painted on the present vases most definitely portray the same person, very possibly Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon 1^er of France and queen of Naples. Cf. the portrait painted on a Dihl & Guérhard pot-pourri of the same period illustrated by Régine Plinval de Guillebon, Faïance et porcelaine de Paris XVIII^. - XIX^. siècles, Paris, 1995, fig. 268.

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