A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER
Lot 80

A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER

LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, SIGNED G. POITVEIN

Closed17 October 2017

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USD 75,000

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A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, SIGNED G. POITVEIN
The finial as billing doves, finely painted with two eighteenth century gentlemen returning from a hunt, one seated atop his horse, the other kneeling before his lady, their game birds in the foreground, within an elaborate raised gilt scrollwork cartouche, the reverse with a chateau in landscape, flanked by angular upright lyre-handles surmounted by a seated putto holding a tasseled rope, the bracket base cast with tasseled drapery centering French Royal heraldic shields
61 in. (155 cm.) high

With Casa Felcher Antiques, Buenos Aires (old retailer's sticker).

Specialist note

A pair of vases of the same massive, rare form were sold Christie’s, New York, 25 October 2005, lot 154 ($156,000). Also compare the similar burgundy-ground pair in The Marshall B. Coyne Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2001, lot 247 ($170,750).