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A PAIR OF SEVRES MOTTLED COBALT BLUE-GROUND DRUM-SHAPED VASES AND DOMED COVERS (VASES 'HOUDON UNIE')
A PAIR OF SEVRES MOTTLED COBALT BLUE-GROUND DRUM-SHAPED VASES AND DOMED COVERS (VASES 'HOUDON UNIE')

CIRCA 1885-1886, PRINTED IRON-RED DORE A SEVRES MONGRAMMED 86 DATE CODE AND PRINTED BLACK S.85 DATE CODE TO EACH, VARIOUS INCISED AND PAINTED LETTERS AND NUMERALS

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A PAIR OF SEVRES MOTTLED COBALT BLUE-GROUND DRUM-SHAPED VASES AND DOMED COVERS (VASES 'HOUDON UNIE')
CIRCA 1885-1886, PRINTED IRON-RED DORE A SEVRES MONGRAMMED 86 DATE CODE AND PRINTED BLACK S.85 DATE CODE TO EACH, VARIOUS INCISED AND PAINTED LETTERS AND NUMERALS
Each with acorn-shaped finial above tall cylindrical neck and tapering stepped shoulder, supported on a baluster stem and stepped domed foot, enriched with gilt bands, one cover cracked and restuck with associated in-filling, minute chip to one shoulder and one foot, minute wear to gilding
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high (2)

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This form of vase was designed by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) in 1880 in two versions, one of which has applied caryatids in a Renaissance style, see Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, Des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 301, fig. 415.

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