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Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Garniture

Name: Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Garniture
Brand: Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Price: 85000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

A very impressive late 19th century gilt bronze mounted cobalt blue Sèvres style porcelain three piece garniture. The impressive centrepiece has a pierced gilt bronze foliate border above a deep blue porcelain body. Finely painted with a scene of a couple at a gaming table, in the manner of Watteau’s fete galante, surrounded by beautiful raised gilt designs. It is framed by winged female figural gilt bronze handles and put down on an inverted baluster shaped stem with gilt foliate decoration and a spreading base. The accompanying vases are similarly decorated with finely tooled gilt reserves on a deep blue ground; the reserves are painted with courting couples inspired by the fete galante to the front and landscape scenes to the reverse. The vases are surmounted by spreading dome shaped covers, with fine gilt tooling of musical trophies, and surmounted by acorn finials. The vases are flanked by female figural handles and raised on conforming bases. The painted panels signed ‘Le Berre’. Centrepiece Height 21 inches / 53cm Width 23 inches / 58cm Depth 11.5 inches / 29cm Vases Height 29 inches / 74cm Width 13 inches / 33cm Depth 9 inches / 23cm.

Creator:

Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 cm)Depth: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 3

Style:

Belle Époque (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Bronze,Porcelain,Gilt,Hand-Painted

Place of Origin:

France

Period:

Late 19th Century

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1875

Condition:

Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

Seller: CA181stDibs: LU905610862803

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Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres

A maker of exemplary European ceramics for hundreds of years, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres has produced porcelain of the highest quality since 1740.

The factory enjoyed royal patronage from its earliest days, and its most prominent patrons in the late 1700s — King Louis XV of France and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour — commissioned some of the period’s most elegant and striking pieces (only the truly wealthy could afford porcelain at this time). The company was originally established in Vincennes but was moved at the request of Madame de Pompadour, in 1756, to Sèvres, near Versailles, so that its operations would be closer to her château.

Sèvres became a mighty and much-revered factory working under a special grant from King Louis XV — the company’s owner as of 1759 and whose abundance of orders for special state gifts put financial strain on the company. Madame de Pompadour is said to have commissioned Sèvres to create an entire indoor garden of porcelain botanicals, for example.

While Sèvres gained a sterling reputation for its soft-paste porcelain wares, the company was late in entering into the production of hard-paste porcelain.

Hard-paste porcelain is the most common type of Chinese porcelain, then a widely exported and profitable product that was not made in Europe until the 18th century. The resources at Sèvres were largely relegated to meeting the demands of Louis XV, and secondly, it did not acquire the secret formula for hard-paste porcelain until 1761. Until it obtained the coveted secrets behind hard-paste porcelain from a chemist named Pierre-Antoine Hannong — and, years later, gained access to the elusive raw materials to make hard-paste porcelain — Sèvres produced soft-paste porcelain for decades that was widely celebrated but is comparatively a far weaker type as opposed to the hard-paste productions of the company’s rival, Meissen, in Saxony, the first to produce true porcelain outside of Asia.

The artisans at Sèvres applied the rarest and most difficult-to-produce colors to their decorative objects and dinner services. One such color, the bright bleu de roi, became the manufacturer’s signature shade and is found on many of their objects. Sèvres also experimented with rarely glazed or unglazed works that bore no decoration at all — bisque porcelain, French for “biscuit,” refers to unadorned white porcelain sculptures made at Sèvres that resemble white marble after being kiln-fired.

Sèvres marks were applied over the glaze or rendered with cuts by a sharp tool — authentic Sèvres porcelain is most commonly marked with two interlaced Ls that are painted in blue and enclose a third letter. Painters and potters were tasked with affixing marks to record their role in the creation of a particular piece, and as a lot of these artisans’ names are recorded in archival factory materials — and there is also much to be learned at the Sèvres museum — it’s likely that you can accurately identify your Sèvres piece.

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