A French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and Ormolu lamp
List: $8,600.00
A striking and very high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and Ormolu lamp. The lamp is raised by a square Ormolu base with elegant and unique fitted porcelain plaques at each side with a... — Read More
A striking and very high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and Ormolu lamp. The lamp is raised by a square Ormolu base with elegant and unique fitted porcelain plaques at each side with a wrap around Coeur de Rai band at the mottled border and a spiral fluted socle shaped pedestal support decorated with a lovely tied oak leaf band. The beautiful baluster shaped Sèvres porcelain body is encased with lovely pierced foliate Ormolu mounts with striking richly chased swans at each side amidst foliate designs and connected by luxuriant intricately detailed swaging floral garlands. — Read Less
All light fixtures have been inspected and rewired to US standards.
- Item # 13922
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H: 31.75 in L: 9.75 in D: 7.5 in
H: 81 cm L: 25 cm D: 19 cm
- Shade Diameter: 22 in
- France
- 19th Century
- Ormolu, Porcelain
- Louis XVI st. Read More
- Sèvres Read More
It was founded through the support of King Louis XV of France and at the initiative of Madame Pompadour to be located near her Château.
Due to Sèvres’ reputation for excellence and prestige, it has always attracted some of the best artists throughout history; François Boucher, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Alexandre Fragonard and August Rodin, just to name a few. Many of these artworks can be seen at the Louvre Museum and the Musée National de Céramique in France.
Initially, Sèvres created a soft paste porcelain know as Biscuit de Sèvres. In 1768 the Bordeaux chemist Villaris and Jean Baptiste Darnet discovered deposits of Kaolin on French soil. In 1771 the Royal Academy sent a report on the creation of hard paste porcelain at which time Sèvres began manufacturing hard paste porcelain.
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) was a French sculptor renowned for creating Biscuit de Sèvres models, and was the director at Sèvres from 1774-1800, followed by Alexandre Brogniart(1800-1847) and Henri Victor Regnault in 1854.
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