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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE VASES (VASES 'BOIZOT A BOUCS')
Lot 60

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE VASES (VASES 'BOIZOT A BOUCS')

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1780-85, THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE JEUNE, THE ORMOLU AND PORPHYRY BASES OF SIMILAR DATE, THE ORMOLU HANDLES AND LOWER PORTION CIRCA 1830

Closed24 October 2012

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE VASES (VASES 'BOIZOT A BOUCS')
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1780-85, THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE JEUNE, THE ORMOLU AND PORPHYRY BASES OF SIMILAR DATE, THE ORMOLU HANDLES AND LOWER PORTION CIRCA 1830
Each oviform vase flanked by ormolu rams head handles, finely painted with birds flying before large blooming rosebushes in landscapes, the reverse with a ribbon-tied bouquet, within chased oval surrounds and swags of bulrushes and berried laurel, on a conforming socle, ormolu base and porphyry plinth
18½ in. (47 cm.) high (2)

Anonymous sale; Etude Tajan, Paris, 20 December 2000, lot 116.

Specialist note

The attribution of the painting to Jean-Jacques Pierre le jeune, recorded as a flower painter and later gilder 1763-1800, is based on a comparison between the painting on the present vases and that on the previous lot, a lozenge-shape déjeuner tray dated 1776.