A French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sévres porcelain and Ormolu vase
List: $9,800.00
A stunning and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sévres porcelain and Ormolu vase. This exceptional vase is supported on a circular mottled edge Ormolu base with a pierced foliate decorated upper edge that is fitted... — Read More
A stunning and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sévres porcelain and Ormolu vase. This exceptional vase is supported on a circular mottled edge Ormolu base with a pierced foliate decorated upper edge that is fitted to the base of the porcelain body. The mid section of this wonderful vase contains an array of additional pierced Ormolu designs including swaging foliate garlands, lattice patterns, Coeur-de-Rai designs, and a dentil pattern along the top. Above the neck of this piece, the top is tastefully paired with a pierced Ormolu band containing foliate patterns and a fine mottled top edge. — Read Less
- Item # 14043
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H: 22.25 in L: 9.25 in D: 9.25 in
H: 57 cm L: 23 cm D: 23 cm
- 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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