A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu centerpiece bowl
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A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu centerpiece bowl. The centerpiece is raised by beautiful pierced scrolled foliate supports with richly chased maiden faces which are connected by charming swaging floral garlands. The striking... — Read More
A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu centerpiece bowl. The centerpiece is raised by beautiful pierced scrolled foliate supports with richly chased maiden faces which are connected by charming swaging floral garlands. The striking hand painted Sèvres porcelain bowl depicts lovely scenes of a man serenading a woman on one side and wonderfully executed vividly colored flowers on the other, each framed within a fine gilt border. Scrolled foliate ormolu handles lead up each side to graceful fluted Greek key designs. The rim displays a fine wrap around pierced foliate ormolu band while the bowl is also finished on the inside with additional finely detailed flowers. All original gilt throughout. — Read Less
- Item # 8403
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H: 11 in L: 19 in D: 10.25 in
H: 28 cm L: 48 cm D: 26 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Ormolu, Sèvres 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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