A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND VASES

CIRCA 1810, PROBABLY LEMAIRE, CARON ET LEFABVRE, RUE AMELOT

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A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND VASES
Circa 1810, probably Lemaire, Caron et Lefabvre, rue Amelot
Each of baluster form, the handles as biscuit winged female herms, the everted mouth and circular foot chased with variant bands of angled acanthus and paterae, the convex shoulder with adorsed putti issuing from a foliate scroll and reaching towards a burning brasier centering medallions inscribed with the title of the scene below, the edge of the shoulder with glazed white 'pearls', the burnished gold ground chased with named scenes related to Love, those on the left hand vase with Le Brouille or 'The Quarrel' on one side, Le Plaisir Liant Les Ailes de L'Amour or 'Pleasure Joining the Wings of Love' on the other, those on the right with La Raccommodement or 'The Reconciliation' and L'Amour et Psiché or 'Cupid and Psyche', on square black marble base
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high, including marble base (2)

Lot Essay

The attribution to the factory that succeeded that supported by the duc d'Orléans and operated on the rue Amelot in Paris by Jacques Lefebvre is based on a comparison with of shape and decoration with both marked and unmarked examples so attributed. See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe Siècles, Paris, 1995, 328-329, no. 313 for a pair of balustre vases with similarly convex shoulders, raised on square black marble bases, and also chased with decoration and cartouches enclosing the titles of the scenes below; p. 384, no. 371 for a 'tea fountain' similarly decorated with glazed beading and with similar ciselé decoration on the gold ground.

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