A pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue porcelain and ormolu lamps, possibly by Sèvres
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A lovely pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue porcelain and ormolu lamps, possibly by Sèvres. Each lamp is raised by a circular ormolu base with elegant feet, fine rosettes and most decorative richly chased foliate reserves... — Read More
A lovely pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue porcelain and ormolu lamps, possibly by Sèvres. Each lamp is raised by a circular ormolu base with elegant feet, fine rosettes and most decorative richly chased foliate reserves encasing a reeded wrap around band. Lovely scrolled ormolu bands extend up each side of the elegantly shaped bodies which display beautiful mottled ormolu top caps decorated with wrap around foliate bands. — Read Less
- Item # 11678
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H: 33.75 in L: 6 in D: 18 in
H: 86 cm L: 15 cm D: 46 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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