LOT DETAILS

Materials:

both gilt and platinum decorated porcelain

Size Notes:

and 61 x 27 cm

Markings:

one with stencilled iron red crowned N and DECORE A SÈVRES 57, both incised DL-56-7

Literature:

Brigitte Ducrot, Porcelaines et Terres de Sèvres au Musée national du château de Compiègne, cat., Paris, 1993, p. 228 for relatable flower decoration on Sèvres porcelain. Bernard Chevallier, Les Sèvres de Fontainebleau, pièces entrées de 1804 à 1904, 1996, Paris, 1996, pp. 148-149 for two relatable pairs of vases decorated in this manner and a drawing of a similar design. Roberto Polo ed., The Eye, London, 2011, pp. 165-165, 167, illustrated

Provenance:

Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie of France, Compiègne. Bernard Dragesco, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999