VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED ARROWS AND C D MARK, SIGNED POITEVIN

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A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED ARROWS AND C D MARK, SIGNED POITEVIN
Each of baluster form, the domed cover surmounted with paired billing doves, finely painted in the manner of Watteau with a fête galantes, entitled either 'Le Printemps' or 'La Promenade á Versailles', within an elaborate raised-gilt foliate rocaille-trellis cartouche, flanked by angular upright harp-handles surmounted by a seated putto holding a tasselled rope, the reverse with a riverside château, on a conforming socle, the bracket base cast with tasselled drapery centering a French Royal heraldic shield
56 in. (142.3 cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

For a nearly identical pair see an anonymous sale, Christie's, London 26 October 2000, lot 282 (80,750 GBP); and for a similar burgundy-ground pair see The Marshall B. Coyne Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2001, lot 247 ($170,750).

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