Lot Essay
See Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1994, lot 18 for a pair of similar form and identically mounted, its facture also unattributed.
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PROPERTY OF THE VALENTINE COLLECTION
A PAIR OF PARIS MATTE-TERRACOTTA AND GOLD-GROUND VASES
CIRCA 1810-20
Details
A PAIR OF PARIS MATTE-TERRACOTTA AND GOLD-GROUND VASES
Circa 1810-20
Each oviform with biscuit winged-nymph herm handles on pilaster terminals, painted on a brown ground with a male or female cameo-style portrait head, reserved within a burnished gold band on the burnt-orange ground further painted and gilt with oak-leaf garlands issuing from rhython cups below each medallion, the reverse with a gilt lyre on a matte blue lozenge similarly reserved and with faces, Pan pipes and other Antique elements, the flaring cylindrical neck, lower body and socle burnished, on square black Belgian marble base
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)
Circa 1810-20
Each oviform with biscuit winged-nymph herm handles on pilaster terminals, painted on a brown ground with a male or female cameo-style portrait head, reserved within a burnished gold band on the burnt-orange ground further painted and gilt with oak-leaf garlands issuing from rhython cups below each medallion, the reverse with a gilt lyre on a matte blue lozenge similarly reserved and with faces, Pan pipes and other Antique elements, the flaring cylindrical neck, lower body and socle burnished, on square black Belgian marble base
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)