A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL COBALT-BLUE GROUND CAMEO PORTRAIT VASES

CIRCA 1810-1830, POSSIBLY SCHOELSCHER

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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL COBALT-BLUE GROUND CAMEO PORTRAIT VASES
Circa 1810-1830, possibly Schoelscher
Each of campana form with everted burnished gold mouth, bracket handles at the shoulder issuing from bearded mask terminals, the front painted in imitation of a shell cameo with a named portrait head of either Julius Caesar or Caesar Augustus reserved on a brown ground within a chased gilt panel on the dark blue ground further gilt with chased trophies, anthemia and scrolls above an oak leaf garland, the body and socle similarly gilt, on square gilt base moulded at the side with a rosette centering acanthus and raised at the angles on paw feet
11 5/8 in. (29.6 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, 1995, p. 413, fig 405 and Michel Bloit, Trois Siècles de porcelaine de Paris, Paris, 1988 p. 85 for a sugar-bowl and cover and for a gold-ground cup and saucer painted with cameo portraits by the Belgian firm of Schoelscher that compare favorably with the present vases.

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