Sèvres
Ref: 0702/1
Porcelain Manufacture
H.-A. Fourdinois Cabinet-maker (1830-1907)
The 1878 Universal Exhibition Vase Signed Ab. Schilt de Sèvres P. Avisse Inv. and Derichsweiler Pinx. and dated 1878 France
vases, centerpieces
Height: 111 cm (43 3/4 in.); Width: 50 cm (19 2/3 in.); Depth: 35 cm (13 3/4 in.)
Exceptional Sèvres porcelain vase. Richly decorated with cameo motifs of Renaissance style on a yellow background with grottesques and fruit garlands. A putto supporting a scalloped cartouche ornated with a polychrom figural allegorical scene painted by Abel Schilt, depicting Dawn on one side and Twilight on the other. Mounted with beautiful chiselled and gilded bronze base and handles, made in Henri
This vase was presented by Fourdinois at the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition (in Great Exhibitions 1851-1900, Jonathan Meyer, Antique Collector’s Club, 2006, p°110 & 260)
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