Three Large Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases with Gilt Bronze Pedestals

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Three Large Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases with Gilt Bronze Pedestals

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This impressive and important collection of three Sèvres style vases forms a remarkable group. The three vases, while not constituting a matching set, combine to create a group strikingly similar in style and composition. The fact that the largest vase stands some ten centimetres taller than the two smaller (and identically sized) vases lends the group a sense of symmetry and propriety. The gilt bronze mounts that adorn each vase are nearly identical in construction and character: from the base, to the handles, to the finial, the mounts serve to link the form of one vase to the forms of its two partners. In a similar vein, the paintings that decorate the front and the back of each vase are stylistically complementary and compositionally cohesive between all three vases. Each of the three vases is of ovoid shape and is adorned with intricately cast gilt bronze mounts. The gilt bronze base of each vase is especially elaborate: each base is square in profile with canted corners and is mounted with an assortment of gilt bronze elements, such as acanthus leaves, shields, bunched and draped fabric, and dangling tassels. The entire collection is decidedly Neoclassical in nature. Above each vase’s dark blue-ground porcelain socle, which sits upon its respective gilt bronze base, is surmounted a gilt bronze circular foliate mount. From this mount, on each vase, spring twin gilt bronze handles. Each handle is as elaborate in construction as is each base: the handle is formed from an acanthus leaf wrapped fluted column, upon which, as a capital, sits a lyre, the arms of which gradually mutate into scrolling acanthus leaves. Behind the head of each lyre-topped handle is a putto seated on the vase’s shoulder. Continuing the theme of elaborate gilt bronze mounts, the finial that surmounts each vase comprises two birds courting atop their nest. The scenes painted on the front of each vase are similarly complementary. Each painted scene is situated within an elaborate scrolling gilt framed cartouche. On the largest vase, the front scene illustrates two women being approached by a male suitor; the scenes on the smaller vases depict figures enjoying the countryside with horses and dogs. The overall theme is one of courtly life and love, typically Rococo in sentiment. Each painting is executed in a similar color palette, the dominant tones being pastel shades of blue, pink, and yellow. The painted scenes on the reverse of each vase, now framed within less elaborate gilt frames, represent landscape idylls, whether pastorals of rivers and lakes or of countryside castles. Each vase stands on a 21st century gilt bronze pedestal, the form of which is after a 19th century French wooden prototype. Each pedestal is supported by four cabriole legs and is topped by a piece of lapis lazuli, the color of which complements the blue-ground color of the porcelain of each vase. Larger vase- Height 146cm, width 57cm, depth 45cm Larger vase pedestal- Height 65cm, width 44cm, depth 44cm Smaller vases- Height 135cm, width 55cm, depth 45cm Smaller vases pedestals- Height 66cm, width 42cm, depth 42cm.

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Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (Manufacturer)
Dimensions:
Height: 57.49 in (146 cm)Width: 22.45 in (57 cm)Depth: 17.72 in (45 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 3
Style:
Louis XVI (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze,Ormolu,Porcelain,Gilt
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
19th Century
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 13935A1stDibs: LU956316609601