A pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sévres Porcelain and Ormolu lamps
List: $17,800.00
A stunning and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sévres Porcelain and Ormolu lamps. Each beautiful lamp is raised on a fine square Ormolu base with concave corners and a socle pedestal above which... — Read More
A stunning and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sévres Porcelain and Ormolu lamps. Each beautiful lamp is raised on a fine square Ormolu base with concave corners and a socle pedestal above which displays draping acanthus leaves, fluted designs around the neck, and a band of foliate decorations above. Supporting the cobalt blue Sévres Porcelain body is a dentil patterned Ormolu bottom mount. The porcelain body is adorned with scrolling foliate Ormolu handles on either side. The socle shaped Ormolu top cap is decorated by a laurel vine band, beaded band, fluted designs, and a foliate band above. — Read Less
All light fixtures have been inspected and rewired to US standards.
- Item # 14040
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H: 28.25 in L: 8.25 in D: 5.75 in
H: 72 cm L: 21 cm D: 15 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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