An Exceptional Pair of Sèvres Style Iridescent-Ground Porcelain Vases

Object Description

An Exceptional Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Iridescent-Ground Porcelain Vases and Covers.

Each vase of slender oviform, with domed cover and cone finial, the elongated neck with everted mouth painted with a monochromatic lustre reserve of cupid, flanked by female herm handles with robes slipped from one shoulder, scattering flowers from a basket, finely painted with nymphs at the water’s edge with attendant putti, within an elaborate raised-gilt and polychrome scrollwork reserve in the Art Nouveau taste, the reverse with wooded lakeside views, on a conforming socle, and wreath cast shaped circular foot.

Signed to the painted decoration ‘A Collot’.
The underside of the lids with pseudo interlaced ‘L’s’ mark and ‘France’.

France, Circa 1900.

Object History

The painter’s signature ‘A. Collot’ probably refers to Eugène Alexis Collet who was born in Paris and working at the turn of the century.

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