A SEVRES (SECOND REPUBLIC) PATE-SUR-PATE MOTTLED MAUVE-GROUND BOTTLE VASE (VASE 'PERSAN')

1886-1892, BLACK PRINTED GROUND COLOR AND RED-PRINTED RF MONOGRAM MARKS, INCISED POTTING MARKS, SIGNED J.(ULES-JOSEPH) GÉLY

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A SEVRES (SECOND REPUBLIC) PATE-SUR-PATE MOTTLED MAUVE-GROUND BOTTLE VASE (VASE 'PERSAN')
1886-1892, BLACK PRINTED GROUND COLOR AND RED-PRINTED RF MONOGRAM MARKS, INCISED POTTING MARKS, SIGNED J.(ULES-JOSEPH) GÉLY
Decorated in layers of coloured paste on the mottled mauve-pink ground with the portrait head of a hero after the Antique suspended from crossed branches within a gilt surround further enclosed within wreaths and flowering vine, the far side undecorated, the mouth delicately gilt with beading and pendants, the foot with a cell-pattern band
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

Exhibited

Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Lot Essay

The technique of pâte-sur-pâte decoration was developed after lengthy research, appearing first as we know it, at Sèvres in about 1849.
Léopold-Jules-Joseph Gély was a sculptor-modeller and decorator at Sèvres from 1851 through 1888. He worked with Hyacinthe Régnier and later Marc Louis Solon. The three produced innovative and award winning pieces in that time.

The present lot is one of two vase Persan made on the same day and sent to Chicago for exhibition of the Sèvres stand at the World's Fair of 1893. Both were decorated by Gély, gilt by Gustave Vignol, and sold to different unrecorded clients.

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