A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SÈVRES TWO-HANDLED VASES (VASE CORDELIER 3eme GRANDEUR) DATED 1844, BLUE PRINTED AND INCISED MARKS, PAINTED BY MOïSE JACOB-BER

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SÈVRES TWO-HANDLED VASES (VASE CORDELIER 3eme GRANDEUR) DATED 1844, BLUE PRINTED AND INCISED MARKS, PAINTED BY MOïSE JACOB-BER
Each with upright scroll handles applied with masks and tapering to stiff leaf-tips, terminating in bearded Bacchic masks, the sides finely painted in colours with luscious swags of fruits and flowers, joined at the handles, beneath a wide band of flowers, the lower section gilt with stiff leaf-tips alternating with stylized lilies, on a flaring socle similarly painted with a band of flowers and a further gilt border, on a square gilt-bronze base, some restoration to both
31½in. (80cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Jean Chélo, Paris

Literature

Connaissance des Arts, January 15, 1955, no. 35, cover

Lot Essay

Moïse Jacob-ber was a flower painter at Sèvres between 1814 and 1848.
For other examples of this shape in two sizes see, Brigitte Ducot, Porcelaines et Terres de Sèvres, Musée National du Château de Compiène, Paris 1993, no.s 25, 26, 29, 178, 184, 187 and 204. See also, Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres Des origines à nos jours, Paris 1978, fig. 338 for an example in the Grand Trianon.
Two vases Cordelier 3eme grandeur fond blanc riches guirlandes de fleur and fruit par M. Jaccobber' are entered in the inventory sale records for the Sèvres magasin on May 28, 1844 (MNS, Archive, Registre Vv 4, folio 22, no 12; prix de vente 12.000 francs la paire) and immediately presented at the l'exposition des produits des manufactures royales au Louvre on June 3, 1844. It is most probable that these are the same pair.