TWO CERAMIC COVERED URNS

EMILE ROUCHERET, MODELER, FOR SEVRES, 1925

Details
TWO CERAMIC COVERED URNS
Emile Roucheret, modeler, for Sevres, 1925
together with owner's original calling card
10in. (25.4cm.) high
each vase incised E.R. and impressed S 1925 G and MADE IN FRANCE, one incised Brecy. with indistinct numbers (2)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.

Lot Essay

cf. Yvonne Brunhammer, 1925, 1976, p. 71 and Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Svres, Elgance du 20me Sicle, L'Exposition des Porcelaines de Svres du style Art Dco, 1993, p. 126 for period photographs of the exterior of the Pavillons de la Manufacture National de Svres at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Dcoratifs et Industriels Moderne, 1925, which illustrate the monumental covered vases, designed by H. Patou, on which the miniature covered vases are based by Emile Roucheret, a modeler and restorer, who worked at Svres from 1901-1941.