A pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps
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A magnificent pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by a square ormolu base with elegant concave sides and a fluted socle shaped pedestal support decorated with a... — Read More
A magnificent pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by a square ormolu base with elegant concave sides and a fluted socle shaped pedestal support decorated with a beautiful wrap around berried laurel garland. The remarkably shaped cobalt blue Sèvres porcelain bodies are encased with lovely pierced foliate ormolu mounts with striking richly chased swans at each side amidst foliate designs and connected by luxuriant swaging floral garlands. Above are pierced ormolu top caps with fine mottled, reeded and foliate designs. All original gilt throughout.
Complimentary single lamp item #12528 is available and sold separately. — Read Less
- Item # 5851
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H: 31.5 in L: 9 in D: 7 in
H: 80 cm L: 23 cm D: 18 cm
- Shade Diameter: 20 in
- 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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