A French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres Porcelain and Ormolu centerpiece urn
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An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres Porcelain and Ormolu centerpiece urn. The oblong oval urn is raised on an Ormolu base with recessed bottom panels with a lattice design and a top reeded border. The... — Read More
An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres Porcelain and Ormolu centerpiece urn. The oblong oval urn is raised on an Ormolu base with recessed bottom panels with a lattice design and a top reeded border. The ormolu tapered fut is decorated by richly chased acanthus leaves. Above is the attractive cobalt blue Porcelain bowl which is flanked by two 'S' scrolled arms with foliate decorations on the bottom and leading to top Greek keys with swaging laurel wreaths. The top of the Porcelain urn is mounted with a fanciful pierced Ormolu gallery with a twisted ribbon design. — Read Less
- Item # 13433
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H: 6.75 in L: 14.75 in D: 8.5 in
H: 17 cm L: 37 cm D: 22 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Ormolu, Porcelain
- Louis XVI st. Read More
- Sèvres Read More
It was founded through the support of King Louis XV of France and at the initiative of Madame Pompadour to be located near her Château.
Due to Sèvres’ reputation for excellence and prestige, it has always attracted some of the best artists throughout history; François Boucher, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Alexandre Fragonard and August Rodin, just to name a few. Many of these artworks can be seen at the Louvre Museum and the Musée National de Céramique in France.
Initially, Sèvres created a soft paste porcelain know as Biscuit de Sèvres. In 1768 the Bordeaux chemist Villaris and Jean Baptiste Darnet discovered deposits of Kaolin on French soil. In 1771 the Royal Academy sent a report on the creation of hard paste porcelain at which time Sèvres began manufacturing hard paste porcelain.
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) was a French sculptor renowned for creating Biscuit de Sèvres models, and was the director at Sèvres from 1774-1800, followed by Alexandre Brogniart(1800-1847) and Henri Victor Regnault in 1854.
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