DECORATED BY GÉLY, CIRCA 1870

细节

A Napoleon III ormolu-mounted Sèvres pate-sur-pate porcelain vase
Decorated by Gély, Circa 1870
Surmounted by a lid with a pomegranate finial, the body decorated all-over with spring blossom, a stork and a butterfly, signed J. Gély, headed to each side by a satyr mask, on four scroll legs, joined by flower swags, on a shaped square base
19½ in. (49 cm.) high

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拍品专文

The sculptor-modeller and decorator Léopold-Jules-Joseph Gély joined the Sèvres manufactory in 1851 at the age of 31. The sculptor Marc Louis Solon was very complimentary of Gély saying: '...in him the process (pâte-sur-pâte) had found the artist who could efficiently develop all its possibilities. Gifted with an extraordinary skill of hand, he could chisel the porcelain paste with a surety and neatness of touch usually reserved to the treatment of precious metals. A talented designer, no one knew better than he how to cast a graceful spray of flowers upon the curve of a vase, and enliven the arrangement by the introduction of small animals, birds, fishes and insects, always true to nature. Whatever the size of the piece which passed through his hands, wether it was a diminutive tazza or a large potiche, the decoration was always worked out with equal care and delicacy'