A pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps
List: $19,800.00
A pair of exquisite French 19th century Louis XVI st.Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised on an ormolu base, with canted corners and fine chasing of masks amidst foliate at each side. The porcelain socle is decorated... — Read More
A pair of exquisite French 19th century Louis XVI st.Sèvres porcelain and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised on an ormolu base, with canted corners and fine chasing of masks amidst foliate at each side. The porcelain socle is decorated with gilt foliate garlands and an ormolu wreath band at the base. The Sèvres porcelain body has elegant hand painted scenes of figures in classical attire, in an outdoor ambiance. Accented further with gilt foliate designs and large richly chased masks at each side and foliate ormolu top cap. With all original gilt. — Read Less
- Item # 8603
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H: 35.5 in L: 10.25 in D: 7.5 in
H: 90 cm L: 26 cm D: 19 cm
- Shade Diameter: 22 in
- 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.