A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, SIGNED AFTER F.(RANCOIS) BOUCHER

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, SIGNED AFTER F.(RANCOIS) BOUCHER
Of inverted-pear shape, each domed cover surmounted by a seated musical putto above paired gilt griffins, finely painted after Boucher with 'Les charmes du printemps' and 'Ce pasteur amoureux chante sur sa musette...', within a richly gilt two-toned foliate cartouche incorporating vases, cornucopiae and a spilling dolphin fountain, the reverse with a lakeside view, flanked by laurel wreath and ring handles, on a conforming socle and wreath-cast waisted canted square base
33¾ in. high (85.7 cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

See Pierrette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre Gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, vol. I, p. 165, fig. 561 for the derivation of the first from an engraving by Jean Daullé, and p. 241, fig. 929 for the second from an engraving by Claude Duflos, le Jeune.

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