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19855
A Large Ormolu-Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vase
A Large Ormolu-Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vase
Dimensions: H: 41 in / 104 cm | W: 15 in / 38 cm | D: 10.5 in / 27 cm
PRICE: £22,500
19855
A Large Ormolu-Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vase
The cobalt-blue ground vase of baluster form with waisted domed cover, the neck gilt with a dot-and-trellis cartouche within an elaborate gilt surround, finely painted with a reclining couple attended by putti, the shoulder flanked by upright looping berried laurel handles, the reverse with a cloud-borne putto, on a conforming socle and canted square base, the underside with various old markings, the gilt base bearing the retailer's mark of Revello & Maglio of Montevideo, and the porcelain signed "Maxant."
French, circa 1895
Georges Maxant, a painter on vases in porcelain and faience, exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. He is recorded working at rue Pierre-Levée 3, Paris. For a nearly identical pair of vases signed by Maxant, see Christie's, new York, 26 november 2013, lot 419.
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