A Sèvres (hard paste) porcelain green-ground ice pail from the ‘Service bouquets de fleurs' for Empress Joséphine, glacière 'Vase B', 1809
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
oviform with Etruscan-style gilt bracket handles, the green-ground neck, lower body and socle foot gilt with rosettes, geometric bands, anthemion and stiff-leaf tips, the mid section painted with flower garlands tied with gilt ribbons suspended from gilt dots at each handle, red stencilled Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres mark and date 1809, green enamel 35.36., incised script T
Haut. 33 cm; Height. 13 in.
Empress Joséphine, Elysée Palace, Paris, December 1809; then to the Château de Malmaison, February 1810, until her death in 1814;
The Property of a Lady, sold, Christie's New York, 15 October 2019, lot 190.
C. Leprince, Napoléon 1er et La Manufacture de Sèvres: l’Art de la Porcelaine au Service de L’Empire, Paris, 2016, p. 289, no. 185