TWO ORMOLU-MOUNTED SÈVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES ON TRIPARTITE STANDS

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, ONE SIGNED GUILLMAIN, THE OTHER G. POITEVIN

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TWO ORMOLU-MOUNTED SÈVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES ON TRIPARTITE STANDS
Late 19th/20th century, one signed Guillmain, the other G. Poitevin
Both ovoid, the fixed covers with acorn finials, one painted with the Muse Erato in clouds holding a tambourine, a putto in attendance, the reverse with further putti in clouds, between wide blue borders and elaborate gilt foliage; the other painted with a group of putti with grapes and a goat, emblematic of Autumn, the reverse with putti fishing, emblematic of Water, above a tier on three in-curved legs headed by goats' masks joined by garland swags, the lower tier fitted with a porcelain roundel, one on lion paw feet, the other with hoof feet
62¾in. (159.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The first vase with the Muse Erato (the companion painting was the Muse Clio), is decorated after Boucher's original painting for Mme de Pompadour. It was engraved by Jean Daullé in 1756. See Pierrette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, vol. I, fig. 560 for the engraving from the Rothschild Collection, now in the Louvre.
The two scenes of the putti emblematic of Autumn and Water on the second vase are also after François Boucher, see Pierrette Jean-Richard, op. cit., figs. 905 and 913, respectively, both engraved by Claude Daflos, le Jeune.

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