AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN IRIDESCENT-GROUND VASE AND COVER
Lot 551 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK ESTATE 

AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN IRIDESCENT-GROUND VASE AND COVER

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, SIGNED CH.(ARLES) FUCHS

Closed19 April 2012

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USD 25,000

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN IRIDESCENT-GROUND VASE AND COVER
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, SIGNED CH.(ARLES) FUCHS
Of baluster form, finely painted with a recumbent beauty holding a torch emblematic of love, attended by three putti, within a gilt and polychrome scrollwork surround, the reverse with a statue of Cupid before two swans in a pond, flanked by maiden term handles holding spilling baskets of flowers, on a conforming socle and wreath-cast base
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

Charles Fuchs, born in Bonn, is recorded as displaying works on faïence and porcelain in 1879 and 1880 Paris Salon.