A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER

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A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER

LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, SIGNED G. POITVEIN

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A MONUMENTAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, SIGNED G. POITVEIN
The finial as billing doves, finely painted with two eighteenth century gentlemen returning from a hunt, one seated atop his horse, the other kneeling before his lady, their game birds in the foreground, within an elaborate raised gilt scrollwork cartouche, the reverse with a chateau in landscape, flanked by angular upright lyre-handles surmounted by a seated putto holding a tasseled rope, the bracket base cast with tasseled drapery centering French Royal heraldic shields
61 in. (155 cm.) high

Provenance

With Casa Felcher Antiques, Buenos Aires (old retailer's sticker).

Lot Essay

A pair of vases of the same massive, rare form were sold Christie’s, New York, 25 October 2005, lot 154 ($156,000). Also compare the similar burgundy-ground pair in The Marshall B. Coyne Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2001, lot 247 ($170,750).

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