Live Auction 2504A Trumbauer Estate on The Philadelphia Main Line
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES (LOUIS-PHILIPPE) PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES (VASES 'ETRUSQUE TURPIN')
Lot 742

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES (LOUIS-PHILIPPE) PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES (VASES 'ETRUSQUE TURPIN')

BLACK STENCILED JULY MONARCHY MARKS FOR 1831, GREEN DECORATOR'S PAINTED MARK 7 MAI 23 TO ONE AND VARIOUS INCISED POTTER'S MARKS

Closed15 April 2011

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES (LOUIS-PHILIPPE) PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES (VASES 'ETRUSQUE TURPIN')
BLACK STENCILED JULY MONARCHY MARKS FOR 1831, GREEN DECORATOR'S PAINTED MARK 7 MAI 23 TO ONE AND VARIOUS INCISED POTTER'S MARKS
In the neo-classical taste, each of baluster form, the trumpet neck flanked by tubular loop handles, the shoulder enriched in platinum and gold with a band of musical trophy medallions among acanthus and anthemion, the lower body with palmettes, on a short flaring socle and square base
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 24 June 2000, lot 235.

Specialist note

For a gadrooned example of this form, see Brigitte Ducrot, Porcelaines et Terres de Sèvres, Musée National du Château de Compiègne, Paris, 1993, p. 140, fig. 88. For a pair of the same form, see Christie's, New York, 29 October 2003, lot 361.