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Lot 156PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION
A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND ONYX MOUNTED COBALT-BLUE GROUND SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN PEDESTALS
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, SIGNED MAXANT
Fermé8 October 2020
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USD 25,000
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Georges Maxant exhibited painted porcelain vases mounted in bronze at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He is is recorded at 3, rue Pierre-Levée in Paris.
The scene on each pedestal is a variation on either Boucher's L'Amour d'ésarmé or Jupiter et Léda. For an egraving of the former by Etienne Fessard and of the latter by William Wynne Ryland, see P. Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, p. 250, fig. 999 and p. 371, figs. 1535 & 1537.
The scene on each pedestal is a variation on either Boucher's L'Amour d'ésarmé or Jupiter et Léda. For an egraving of the former by Etienne Fessard and of the latter by William Wynne Ryland, see P. Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, p. 250, fig. 999 and p. 371, figs. 1535 & 1537.