Lot 111
111
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND ONYX-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE IVORY AND TURQUOISE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES
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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND ONYX-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE IVORY AND TURQUOISE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES

THE MOUNTS BY PAUL LOUCHET, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND ONYX-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE IVORY AND TURQUOISE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES
THE MOUNTS BY PAUL LOUCHET, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with three-sided body decorated to one side with playful cherubs and to two sides with raised-gilt and ruby enamelled reserves, each with foundry plaquette stamped PARIS/LOUCHET/CISELEUR
33 in. (84 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

A single example, with the jewelled gilt decoration to three sides and therefore lacking the finely painted scenes of cherubs on the present vases, was sold Christie's New York, 25 October 2005, lot 163 ($26,400).

Paul Louchet, a friend of Lalique and Daum, was a painter, engraver, jeweler and bronzier. He was both the president of the bronze manufacturer's sydicate and mayor of the town of Herblay.

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