A pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps
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A very elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by square ormolu bases with rounded corners. The socle of each vase is decorated with a richly chased laurel ormolu... — Read More
A very elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by square ormolu bases with rounded corners. The socle of each vase is decorated with a richly chased laurel ormolu band below the porcelain base and urn. The porcelain base and urn have a wonderfully delicate hand painted lattice foliate design with pink colored roses. The urns are flanked by two scrolled foliate ormolu handles below a twisted ribbon pierced ormolu band. — Read Less
- Item # 9546
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H: 28.75 in D: 20 in
H: 73 cm D: 51 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.