A Large Ormolu-Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vase

Object Description

A Large Ormolu-Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vase

The cobalt-blue ground vase of baluster form with waisted domed cover, the neck gilt with a dot-and-trellis cartouche within an elaborate gilt surround, finely painted with a reclining couple attended by putti, the shoulder flanked by upright looping berried laurel handles, the reverse with a cloud-borne putto, on a conforming socle and canted square base, the underside with various old markings, the gilt base bearing the retailer’s mark of Revello & Maglio of Montevideo, and the porcelain signed “Maxant.”
French, circa 1895

Object Literature

Georges Maxant, a painter on vases in porcelain and faience, exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. He is recorded working at rue Pierre-Levée 3, Paris. For a nearly identical pair of vases signed by Maxant, see Christie’s, new York, 26 november 2013, lot 419.

Object Condition

Excellent condition

Object Details