AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES (LOUIS-PHILIPPE AND SECOND REPUBLIC) PARCEL-GILT BLUE AND WHITE VASE

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1847-1849, INCISED 8N-47-12, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED LP MONOGRAM MARK FOR (18)48, AND REPUBLIC DORÉ MARK FOR (18)49 TO THE INTERIOR, SIGNED C. BARRIAT

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES (LOUIS-PHILIPPE AND SECOND REPUBLIC) PARCEL-GILT BLUE AND WHITE VASE
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1847-1849, INCISED 8n-47-12, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED LP MONOGRAM MARK FOR (18)48, AND REPUBLIC DORÉ MARK FOR (18)49 TO THE INTERIOR, SIGNED C. BARRIAT
Of baluster form, the flaring trumpet neck with alternate spiralling beaded chain and convulvulous vine, flanked by upright grapevine entwined scroll handles, painted with a ribbon-tied medallion of a Neried and dolphin on a gold-resist ground, within an oval berried wreath and strapwork surround, suspending cluster of fruit, the reverse with a Bacchanalian mask suspending grapevine, enriched and etwined allover with scrolling vine, the conforming socle and spreading foot with a further border of ivy and shell
22¾ in. (57.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Charles Barriat was active at Sèvres from 1848 to 1883 and was known for his flower and figure painting. For a vase of the same form and spirit, Exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, compare The Illustrated Exhibitor, a tribute to the World's Industrial Jubilee ..., London, 1851, p. 230 and The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue: The Industry of All Nations, London, 1851, p. 172. Here described as an object 'in the highest degree meritorious'.

Also see an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 10 October 2001, lot 73 for a pair of vases by this artist; and the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio for a 'Coupe Milan' by Barrait 1852 purchased with funds given by Mr. & Mrs. George M. Jones, Jr. 1990.104.

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