Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Decorative Objects

Massive lapis lazuki elephants sculpture from Greece, circa 1990s. The piece is well detailed, nicely veined and has an absolutely stunning pallet of blue shades. The entire sculpt...

This small but elegant Sèvres porcelain vase boasts an impressive provenance, being part of the 'Camaïeu Carmin' service originally made in 1757 for Louis XV for his Château de Fonta...

An exquisite 19th century Napoleon III compote, or centrepiece, in delicate Sèvres porcelain and gilt bronze. Designed to grab all the attention as the decorative focal point on a di...

A fine quality porcelain lidded candy dish or jewelry box inspired in the manner of 19th Century Sevres designs. This fine quality and beautiful por...

Fantastic Art Deco vase in gilt decor over rich turquoise ground. Form designed by Emile Decoeur (1876-1953) Decoration possibly designed by Suzanne Lalique-Haviland or Emile-Jacques...

A gorgeous antique French Napoleon III period marquetry walnut oval bombe table jardiniere / bloom box / cachepot / planter with the original tin liner, circa 1860. This beautiful jardiniere is hand crafted with walnut inlaid with ebony and decorated with gilt bronze mounts, ormolu handles and pierced gallery, and hand painted Sevres porcelain floral...

A fine old or antique Sevres type porcelain vase. With rich gilding and handpainted flower baskets & ribbons throughout. Marked to the based with a blue Sevres type interlaced...

A charming little sterling silver-lidded porcelain box, possibly used for snoring snuff, or for general trinkets. The silver top is decorated in Louis XVI style, and bears the Minerv...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed during the artist's time spent at Sèvres, between 1934-1939. Excellent condition. Impressed with artist's name and maker's marks. Tyra Lundgren (1897-1979) was one of the most multifaceted artists and modernists of the twentieth century. She was a painter, drawer, sculptor, ceramist, glass- and textile designer, as well as an author and an art critic. She was the first woman who designed glass for Paolo Venini at Murano in Venice and she also served as the artistic leader at Arabia in Helsinki at a time when men tended to hold those kinds of positions. Tyra Lundgren grew up in Djursholm, near Stockholm. Her parents were John Petter Lundgren, professor at Veterinärinstitutet (institute of veterinary sciences) in Stockholm, and Edith Lundgren née Åberg, who was a housewife and raised their six children. The bourgeois home also comprised a nanny and a female cook. The family were very socially active, travelled often, and enjoyed the outdoor lifestyle. Tyra Lundgren’s schooling began at Djursholm coeducational school, where her teachers included Natanael and Elsa Beskow and Alice Tegnér. Her school friends included Greta Knutson-Tzara, Stellan Mörner, and Ingrid Rydbeck-Zuhr. Tyra Lundgren knew from the time she was five years old that she wanted to be an artist. She first became aware of the profession through Axel Fahlcrantz, who rented a studio on the plot of land where she lived with her family. In 1913 she began to attend Högre konstindustriella skolan (HKS, now known as Konstfack, college of arts, crafts and design) where she studied decorative art as well as handicrafts in various forms until 1917. One of her fellow students and friends there was Estrid Ericson, who later founded Svenskt Tenn AB in 1924. Whilst attending HKS Tyra Lundgren also took painting lessons at the Althin school of painting. In 1917 she was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where, apart from breaks during which she undertook studies abroad, she remained until 1922. She spent a couple of months taking lessons from Anton Hanak in Vienna and from 1920–1923 she was a student of André Lhote in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was primarily active in four countries: Sweden, Finland, France, and Italy. She spent much of her professional life travelling and considered herself to be a European. Greece and Mexico also formed important centres in her artistic life, as did the USA. She had an extensive social network which included focal individuals within twentieth century-European and American artistic and cultural circles. Tyra Lundgren’s main artistic motifs were birds, fish, and people which she depicted through different techniques and materials. Her artistic expression involved a variety of different directions and styles. She was a pioneer of the 1920s Swedish Grace style, the name of which had been coined by the art critic Morton Shand at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. This was a Swedish Art Deco style, characterised by elegance and traditional art which contrasted with the current artistic ideals of functionalism. Tyra Lundgren made her debut at a group exhibition held at Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna in 1921. She went on to show her work at various exhibitions throughout the 1920s. After that period she only very rarely exhibited her paintings. Tyra Lundgren’s painted output can be divided into different periods or stylistic directions. The first of these, and the most extensive, was her post-Cubist period which began in 1920 on her arrival in Paris. Her paintings from this time and right up to the mid-1930s typically comprise portraits, self-portraits, live-model painting, still-lifes, interiors, and landscapes in the Cubist style. Many of the great number of self-portraits she painted were produced in the New Objective style, displaying broad variation in terms of clothes, poses and techniques. Two of these – Huvud med vit duk and Självporträtt both from 1921 – can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, although the majority of these works are at Gotlands Museum. Tyra Lundgren’s second artistic period comprises the years of 1927 to 1929 and is characterised by the New Objective style inspired by medieval techniques and materials (Giotto, Piero della Francesca). Her motifs were still-lifes and landscapes. At this point she was living in Rome and was close to the circle involved in the Valori plastici: rivista d’arte art journal. This period saw a breakthrough in her development as a painter. From the 1950s through the 1970s her work can almost be described as belonging to the Concrete style. Using light pastel colours her paintings sought light in a sometimes non-figurative expression, but often depicting abstract bird-shapes or other nature-inspired imagery. Her paintings from this period are outsized and display powerful colours, in yellows, reds, and blues. Tyra Lundgren maintained a constant production of drawings, both in terms of individual artworks and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book Fagert i Fide. Årstiderna på en gammal gotlandsgård, published in 1961. During her early years she also produced advertising illustrations. She spent the final years of her life primarily working with lithographs which were printed at Galleri Prisma and depicted images of doves, swallows, magpies and crows. Tyra Lundgren is meanwhile best known for her work as a ceramist and in this sphere she was one of Sweden’s leading exponents. She worked in the porcelain industry as a designer and as an artisan and ceramic sculptor. Her first job was at St Eriks Lervarufabrik in Uppsala from 1922–1924, she then worked at Arabia from 1924–1937, and at Rörstrand and Lidköping Porslinsfabrik. She was the artistic leader at Arabia ahead of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition and she exhibited her work at the World’s Fairs. During the 1934–1938 period she was connected to the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was a pioneer when it came to giving ceramic art a public space in Sweden. She produced around 20 outsized reliefs in stoneware, so-called monumental reliefs. One of these is Märkeskvinnor, from 1947, for the former girls’ school at Bohusgatan in Stockholm. From the 1940s onwards Tyra Lundgren produced sculptural objects in Chamotte clay and stoneware, with various glazings. Her small birds are well-known and popular with many. When her ceramic efforts became too much for her during the 1970s she then produced models for sculptures in bronze. There are six of these in various places around the globe, including Solfågel in Almedalen, Visby. Tyra Lundgren began to work as a glassware designer at Moser in Karlsbad in 1922 where she designed new table services and modernised older ones. She also worked freelance for Riihimäki factory in Finland during the 1924–1929 period. From 1934 to 1938 she was employed by Kosta glass factory where she mainly designed thick-walled bowls and vases, engraved with classical motifs. She was introduced to the glassmaker Paolo Venini at Murano during the Triennale di Milano of 1936 and they began a collaboration that lasted into the 1950s. As part of this collaboration Tyra Lundgren became the first woman to design glassware and, in conjunction with the glassblower Arturo Biasutto, she developed new techniques of glass production. Her motifs at this point were birds, fish, snail-shaped designs and leaf-patterned bowls using traditional techniques as well as in new designs. It was during this time that she created the so-called tissue-shaped bowls and it remains unclear as to who specifically came up with the design but Tyra Lundgren claimed it was of her making. Tyra Lundgren was active as textile designer for Licium (now HV Licium), the sacred textiles...

Very nice early 20th century French porcelain vase from the famous Sevres manufacture in the 1900s. Beautiful flowers and golden details. The bronze part is removable. There is als...

Pair of Antique French 'Sevres' porcelain lidded pot pourri and gilded bronze lidded urns, 1804-1809. The urns having a rich red ground with gilded panels, the domed lids with gilded bronze eagle...

Bronze sculpture with green and dark brown patina image of a young woman embracing a lamb, signed by Ary Bitter, on a green black marble stand. Ary Bitter (1883–1973) was a French artist, best known for his animal sculptures. He was a designer, painter, and sculptor in various mediums including plaster, stone, terracotta and bronze. His work was also produced in biscuit by the Sèvres factory. Ary Jean Léon Bitter was born in Marseille in 1883. In 1895 he enrolled at the Marseille Beaux Arts and was taught by Émile Aldebert...

Blue vase in enameled ceramic Signed under the base "Sevres, Made in France".

Stunning pair of unusual hand painted glazed porcelain lidded vases of bulbous outline, of Continental origin, possibly one of the factories in the Sevres region in France. Last half...

Pair of candelabras in gilded bronze and blue Sèvres porcelain dating from the end of the 19th century. Vases adorned with branches of roses and different flowers (a few pistils miss...

This very beautiful pair of ovoid and covered vases was made of Sèvres porcelaine and mounted in gilt bronze. The two vases depicts a painted decor b...

A palatial french ormolu-mounted Sevres Porcelain hand-painted vase and cover, circa 1838. This monumental Sevres porcelain vase stands 56" high, and is beautifully hand-painted with classical scenes of lovers and cupids, in teal / turquoise blue ground porcelain. Made with very fine quality figural bronze handle, the vase turns to a full 360 degree angle and is mounted on a solid bronze base with fine detail. Painted with beautiful flowers throughout the entire vase, leading up to the cover, which is adorned with an acorn bronze...

This is a pair of Sevres hand painted porcelain turquoise lidded urns. Both of them are depicting in the front a sea shore fishermen scenes. In one, a group of fishermen are preparing a sailboat and in the other one, they are pulling the net. The back are adorned with some gilt fishing tools and baskets with foliages. Both scenes are golden framed with scrolls of acanthus and flowers beside them. Gilt white concave long oval shaped rings alternated with gilt foliages and shamrocks decorate the necks of the urns. The same pattern are repeated in the lids, but no white color in the center. The bell shaped lids ended with pinecones finials. A mix of scrolls and Greek keys serve as handles. The round bases are also decorated with gilt foliages. The Sevres hallmark appears in the lids and below the bases. One of the urn’s painting...

One of the most exquisitely designed and painted Art Deco pieces we have ever seen, this flaring vase by Anne Marie Fontaine for Sevres features a flaring, trumpet-form upper section...

This beautiful pair of covered vases made of porcelain originally comes from the Manufacture of Sèvres where the white pieces were bought in 1869, decorated then mounted in gilt bron...

This is a very old gilt and pale pink background urn depicting a continuous hand-painted scene of a lady sitting in a pastoral landscape holding her fan and observing nature. In the ...

Beautiful 19th century French porcelain inkwell from the imperial manufacture of Sevres. Green and gold decor with dolphin's head. Stamped Sevres at the back. Rare item.

A pair of vase -Sèvres Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres France, Sèvres, 1986. Unique pieces Pair of oval-roll-shape porcelain vases, each presents a unique decor of fine crysta...

Overscale antique Sèvres Porcelain urn vases in cobalt blue with gilt accents Offered for sale is a striking pair of overscale cobalt blue handled Sèvres Porcelain urn vases with ...

The dark blue background of the porcelain vases stand on a gilded carved octagonal pedestal. The base is decorated with gilt scrolls of acanthus leaves and foliage. The front center ...

Rare pair of Sèvres golden vases, beginning 19th century, original without bronze - Hand painted - Also told "krater vases" - The manufacture of Sèvres is one of the most famous po...

A late 19th century Sèvres style parcel-gilt porcelain jardinière Finely painted with numerous colored flowers with green and gold trim, gilt ram heads on either side. In late ...

A very fine French Sevres biscuit (Bisc) porcelain figure of a recumbent nude lady titled "Le Repos" after a model by Alfred Boucher (French, 1850-1934) Sensually depicting a young w...

A monumental palace size Sèvres Porcelain blue lapis painted vase. Beautifully hand-painted to imitate natural Lapis Lazuli stone. Hand-painted in R...

Maker: Joseph Dieudonné Kinable Richard Symes – Dialmaker Sèvres – Porcelain Makers George Tupman – Repair mark Case: The exceptional lyre-form ‘bleu torquoise’ porcelain c...

A pair of fine quality Napoleon III Sèvres ormolu-mounted porcelain vase, 1860. The gilt pinatum finial mounted lids above bodies with jeweled panels painted with four individual por...

A vintage pair of crystal vases or ice buckets with circular and square pattern marked Sevres, France on the bottom. Good vintage condition with age appropriate wear. Some scratches.

A magnificent and large pair of signed Sèvres Art Nouveau period ‘Third Republic’ Pate Nouvelle pale yellow ground vases (Vase De Lesbos 1 Grandeur)...

Large and unusual 19th century French Sevres gilt bronze mounted covered urn / vase of tapering ovoid form in cobalt-blue ground. Bearded man with horns ...

A pair of highly important and rare antique French Napoleonic gilt bronze mounted, cobalt blue, double handled, Royal Napoleonic Sèvres style porcela...

A very unusual and quite large pair of Empire period Sèvres Porcelain pale Celeste blue and faux porphyry ground vases. Each vase is intricately hand painted with meticulous detail and further adorned with 24-karat hand painted gilt decoration. The bases are a very unusual hand painted faux porphyry porcelain. Each vase and base is marked with various pressnumera and Sèvres signs...

These bronze-mounted Sèvres porcelain urns are monumental in both size and quality and feature the renowned manufactory’s signature deep cobalt blue glaz...

A pair of large 19th century French Sevres ormolu-mounted and painted vases. Each in baluster form with large ormolu mounts. The body finely painted depicting a typical landscape....

This rare Renaissance Revival garniture, consisting of a clock and pair of boxes in form of chalices with hinged bonnets, is richly decorated with numerous hand-painted medallions with portraits of medieval French...

A very impressive late 19th century gilt bronze mounted cobalt blue Sèvres style porcelain three piece garniture. The impressive...

An outstanding quality antique gilded bronze & Sevres porcelain French 3 piece, 8 day clock garniture with candelabra, by Brocot & Delettrez, Paris, circa 1870. The clock with an 'e...

National de Sèvres factory Pair of porcelain vases with blue background and gilded rosette decoration marked and dated 1903 and 1908 decoration H: 65.5 cm and H: 67 cm. diameter 40...

Stunning French Sevres Grand Tour Parian Bisque Group depicting a male and female standing figures, mid to late Nineteenth Century. The male Farmer in period dress holding an agric...

Pair of Sèvres porcelain and gilt bronze cassolettes in the Empire style, 19th century, Napoleon III period. Pair of 19th century cassolettes...

A pair of Sèvres porcelain and gilt bronze candlesticks, 19th century. A pair of Sèvres porcelain and gilt bronze candlesticks, Napoleon III period, 19th century. H: 32cm. D: 13cm

An imposing Sevres biscuit porcelain group entitled 'Duo'. Signed Lanteri (Edouard Lanteri (1848-1917)) on the base, sculptor of royal factory of Sevres. Remarkable size and perfect...

Pair of Sèvres porcelain covered vases, Napoleon III period. A pair of 19th century Sèvres painted, enamelled and gilt porcelain covered vases with gilt bronze mounts, Napoleon III ...

Manufacture Nationale De Sevres (French, founded 1740), after Princess Marie-Christine d' Orleans (French, 1813-1839). "Princess Marie d’Orléans was the youngest daughter of the Fr...

An extremely rare example of an equestrian French authentic Sevres Porcelain Figure depicting King Francois I on horseback, mid to late Ninetee...

Porcelain amphora in turquoise tone with enameled bird design. Signed MP SEVRES. France, CIRCA 1930.

Porcelain amphora in shades of blue and green with bronze. Signed M P, SEVRES, CH France, CIRCA 1920.

Sèvres porcelain vase with bronze mount "Aux tetes de satyr". The vase is made in the Louis XVI style, painted on French porcelain and signed E. Baurens. Ø cm 29 Ø cm 23 h cm 65 T...

Bust of Marie-Antoinette in biscuit (hard porcelain) from the Royal Manufacture of Sèvres mounted on an ornamented bronze stand. Signed and Stamped Felix Lecomte (later). Slight accident in the back. Felix Lecomte (1737-1817) sculpted Marie-Antoinette, then aged 28, in 1783. Only 2 sculptors had the right to portray the Queen: Boizot and Lecomte. This sculpture is therefore the official relief portrait of the Queen...

Pair of silver and porcelain sevres vases, 19th century Beautiful pair of sevres porcelain vases in blue and white with gold floral details, with silver neck, mouth and base. Texture...

Pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, Napoleon III period, 19th Century. A pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, richly decorated with medallions and gallant scenes, Napoleon III period, 19th C...

France, mid-19th century, Sevres, gilt bronze base, two stylized swans, carrying a leaf-shaped porcelain bowl, stylized leaf handles on the sides, painting of a cupid on the mirror, ...

An Exceedingly Rare 19th Century French Sevres Faux Bois Flower-Pot and Underplate, Signed with Sevres Marks. This stunning piece features a beautiful rounded rich handcrafted faux ...

Very beautiful porcelain vase by Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Most famous porcelain factory in the world. Vase signed by Andre Plantard Dated 1963 This is a rare piece located in...