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An Exhibition quality pair of Sevres style gilt brass mounted…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
24-May-2010
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Description:
An Exhibition quality pair of Sevres style gilt brass mounted porcelain lidded vases signed F. Tublet, 19th century, each of slender ovoid form, inscribed beneath the cover 'Offert Par Le Duc de Richelieu a Madame de Comporn' and painted with a central cartouche depicting courting lovers in a garden setting, with an opposing landscape scene, the whole richly decorated with raised gilt highlights and floral swags on a Bleu du Roi ground, flanked by foliate cast gilt brass handles, beneath a domed cover with a cone finial, raised on a stepped socle with a chamfered square gilt brass foot, underglaze blue factory mark beneath cover, gilt factory mark beneath the foot. Height 105 cm. Provenance: Leonard Joel, Normanhurst - Estate of the late Henry F. Young, 19th November 1929, lot 285. 1929-1961 - collection of the late Charles Titchener then by family descent.
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Category:
Ceramics: Sevres/Style