A PAIR OF LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES-STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES
Lot 93 PROPERTY FROM AN EASTERN EUROPEAN COLLECTION (92 & 93)

A PAIR OF LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES-STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, SIGNED DESPREZ SÈVRES

Closed20 September 2012

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A PAIR OF LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES-STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, SIGNED DESPREZ SÈVRES
Each with waisted neck decorated with gilt embossed Imperial eagles and titled with Napoleonic victories, above a tapering ovoid body painted in the round with a continuous scene of Napoleon in battle, on a conforming spreading socle and ormolu base cornered by paw feet
47 in. (120 cm.) high (2)

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Acquired in Paris, late 19th/early 20th century, and by descent.