A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS

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A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SIGNED MAXANT

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A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SIGNED MAXANT
Each of baluster form with waisted domed covers, the neck gilt with a musical trophy within an elaborate gilt surround, finely painted with a recumbent maiden attended by putti, the shoulder flanked by upright looping berried laurel handles with female mask terminals, the reverse with cloud-borne putti, on a conforming socle and canted square base
51½ in. (131 cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

Georges Maxant, a painter on vases in porcelain and faience, exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. He is recorded working at rue Pierre-Levée 3, Paris. For a nearly identical pair of vases signed by Maxant, see Christie's, London, 23 February 2006, lot 46.

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