AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND OVAL CENTERPIECE

LATE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED C.(HARLES) LABARRE

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND OVAL CENTERPIECE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED C.(HARLES) LABARRE
FINELY PAINTED FRONT AND BACK WITH MYTHOLOGICAL VIEWS OF BACCHANTES ATTENDED BY PUTTI EITHER PLYING THEM WITH WINE OR FEEDING THEIR VANITY, THE PIERCED GALLERY RIM SURMOUNTED BY FULL FIGURES OF A SEATED MALE AND FEMALE SATYR HOLDING A GRAPEVINE AS THEY LEAN OUT OVER THE EDGE OF AN ANGULAR FOLIATE BRACKET, RAISED ON A WAISTED SOCLE, SET ON A BERRIED LAUREL WREATH AND APPLIED WITH A SHIELD, THE SHAPED-RECTANGULAR BASE APPLIED WITH ROSETTES AT THE CORNERS, ABOVE FOUR TOUPIE FEET
27½ IN. (69.8 CM.) WIDE

Lot Essay

SEE ANON. SALE, CHRISTIE'S, NEW YORK, 24 OCTOBER 2006, LOT 208 FOR A PAIR OF SèVRES STYLE VASES BY THE SAME HAND. CHARLES LABARRE IS ALSO RECORDED AS A PAINTER AT DOULTON & CO. HIS WORK FOR DOULTON, THE MONUMENTAL EXHIBITION PIECES 'THE DANTE VASE' AND 'THE LOVE VASE' WERE SHOWN AT THE CHICAGO COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893.

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