A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES

CIRCA 1850, SIGNED BARRÉ, SÈVRES

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A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES
Circa 1850, signed Barré, Sèvres
Each of baluster form, the elaborate acanthus scroll handles issuing from smear-glazed biscuit Bacchic mask terminals, the neck, lower portion, socle and square base gilt and with chased decoration, the body continuously painted with two still-lives of fruit and flowers arranged in and spilling from baskets
18in. (45.6cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The signature is likely that of Louis-Desiré Barré, a painter specializing in flower painting, employed at the Sèvres factory in the second half of the 19th century and head of the painting workshop as of 1876. It is likely that Barré completed the decoration on the present pair of vases while living in the city of Sèvres but before being employed by the French national ceramic factory of the same name.

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