A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU AGATE RIBBED VASES (VASES 'GODRONNEES')

BLUE PRINTED CYPHER MARKS DATED 1838 AND GILDER'S A. (18)39 TO BOTH, ONE INCISED 32 6 AND WITH OTHER SCRIPT LETTERS AND INITIALS, THE OTHER INCISED 35 10

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A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU AGATE RIBBED VASES (VASES 'GODRONNEES')
BLUE PRINTED CYPHER MARKS DATED 1838 AND GILDER's A. (18)39 TO BOTH, ONE INCISED 32 6 AND WITH OTHER SCRIPT LETTERS AND INITIALS, THE OTHER INCISED 35 10
Each oviform with upright burnished gilt loop handles reserved with laurel, the ribbed bodies enriched with gilt stripes, gilt anthemia beneath meandering ivy on the neck
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The ground colour of the present vases is paler and less purple in tone than that generally found on pieces with this sort of neoclassic decoration. It may be, instead, the colour referred to in the records as bleu pâle.