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Lot 175

A pair of gilt-metal-mounted Sèvres blue-ground vases, circa 1868

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of gilt-metal-mounted Sèvres blue-ground vases, circa 1868

Vase à gorges, each reserved on the front with an oval panel depicting putti with birds within a frame with enamel 'pearls' and edged with scrollwork, the foot with a similar border, the handles and rims edged in gilding, mounted with a gilt-metal collar to the rims and a canted rectangular plinth, 35.5cm high, crowned N and 'decoré à Sèvres/ 68' stencilled in red inside the necks (2)

Footnotes

See G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol. I (2009). no. 89, for an 18th century pair of vases, and fig. 89.3 for the plaster model, also known as 'vase Cyprès'.

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