Lot 139

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND TOPOGRAPHICAL VASE (VASE 'CARAFE ETRUSQUE', 2EME GRANDEUR)

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND TOPOGRAPHICAL VASE (VASE 'CARAFE ETRUSQUE', 2EME GRANDEUR)

DATED 1847-1849, THE MOUTH WITH GILT CROWNED LP MONOGRAM DORE MARK FOR 48 AND R.F. DECORE MARK FOR 48; THE FOOT WITH A GREEN CROWNED LP MONOGRAM KILN MARK FOR 47, GILDER'S V.' & INCISED POTTER'S DG-47-8

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND TOPOGRAPHICAL VASE (VASE 'CARAFE ETRUSQUE', 2EME GRANDEUR)
DATED 1847-1849, THE MOUTH WITH GILT CROWNED LP MONOGRAM DORE MARK FOR 48 AND R.F. DECORE MARK FOR 48; THE FOOT WITH A GREEN CROWNED LP MONOGRAM KILN MARK FOR 47, GILDER'S V.' & INCISED POTTER'S DG-47-8
Flanked by chased gilt bronze upright ribbed scroll handles, finely painted with a contemporary view of 'Notre-Dame de Paris.', identified below, within an elaborate neo-Gothic strapwork surround enriched in platinum, the reverse with a gilt and platinum rosette entwined with vine
16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2008, lot 101.

Lot Essay

Records preserved at the Sèvres archive note this vase as corresponding to one of a pair of vases entering the salerooms or magasin de vente le 19 février 1849 (Registre Vv 5, folio 22, no 39, prix de vente 600 francs chacun). The companion vase to this example which may have been sold separately depicts la cathédrale d'Alby [sic]". See Christie's, New York, 20 May 2008, lot 216 for a pair of vases of the same form, ordered by King Louis Philippe of France and delivered on the 13th of November 1845.

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