Live Auction 3775The Opulent Eye - 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art, Ceramics & Carpets
A MONUMENTAL NEAR PAIR OF ORMOLU AND ROUGE MARBLE MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE IVORY-GROUND PORCELAIN JARDINIERES
Lot 15 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTOR

A MONUMENTAL NEAR PAIR OF ORMOLU AND ROUGE MARBLE MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE IVORY-GROUND PORCELAIN JARDINIERES

LATE 19TH CENTURY, ONE SIGNED EUG.(ENE) POITEVIN

Closed21 October 2015

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A MONUMENTAL NEAR PAIR OF ORMOLU AND ROUGE MARBLE MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE IVORY-GROUND PORCELAIN JARDINIERES
LATE 19TH CENTURY, ONE SIGNED EUG.(ENE) POITEVIN
Each of tulip form with pierced rim and bifurcated foliate handles suspending laurel swags, the body molded with three large cartouches finely painted one side in the manner of Boucher with putti either emblematic of Summer or emblematic of Love, the other two sides with amatory and musical trophies, all reserved by gilt trellis, supported by three tall foliate scroll feet above a tripartite rouge marble base
54 in. (137 cm.) high, 26 ½ in. (67.5 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

Eugene Poitevin is recorded as a painter on "pâte tendre" in the style of Sieffert and Malpass, both formerly of the Sèvres manufactory, in the "New Pottery" section of the 4 January 1883 issue of The Art Interchange, New York, vol. X, no. 1.