A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL CLARET AND GOLD GROUND VASES
Lot 1086

A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL CLARET AND GOLD GROUND VASES

CIRCA 1820, INCISED D TO BOTH

Closed21 June 2012

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USD 5,000

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A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL CLARET AND GOLD GROUND VASES
CIRCA 1820, INCISED D TO BOTH
Each of baluster form, flanked by upright scroll handles centering flower-head roundels and with acanthus terminals, painted with a Paris street scene, identified above as either Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle or Boulevard des Capucines, the reverse with a chased gilt medallion of either a putto embracing a lion or a putto coaxing a bird, on a conforming socle and square base
15¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 May 2008, lot 144.