A pair of ‘Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’ portrait vases with ‘bronze doré’ mounts,
porcelain, cobalt blue bodies with wide and fine gilt rims, neck and foot with gilt leaf tendrils and floral stems, gilt foliate friezes, to the obverse medallions with polychrome-painted portrait-busts, Louis XVI with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Spirit (Ordre du Saint Esprit), to one side, signed H. Poitevin, encompassed by rich gilt leaf rocailles and garlands of flowers, to the reverse gilt crowed, ligated monogram framed with palm fronds, aperture with yellow metal cover, handle with sculptural acanthus leaves and wreathes and beaded friezes, circular foot with laurel wreath, octagonal plinth with relief décor, height 60 cm, Sèvres, France, apocryphal mark, late 19th cent. (Ru)
Lit.: W. Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexikon, vol. II, 1840-1914, p. 163, ill. signed painter H. Poitevin;
Louis XVI, Versailles 23.8.1754-21.1.1793 executed Paris, French king 1774-1792; Marie-Antoinette, Vienna 2.11.1755-16.10.1793 executed Paris, French queen, daughter of Maria Theresia, married the later French king, Louis XVI in 1770. Arranged for the flight of the royal family in June 1791, was incarcerated in 1792 and died in 1793;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
21.10.2015 - 15:00
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EUR 7,000.- to EUR 9,000.-
A pair of ‘Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’ portrait vases with ‘bronze doré’ mounts,
porcelain, cobalt blue bodies with wide and fine gilt rims, neck and foot with gilt leaf tendrils and floral stems, gilt foliate friezes, to the obverse medallions with polychrome-painted portrait-busts, Louis XVI with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Spirit (Ordre du Saint Esprit), to one side, signed H. Poitevin, encompassed by rich gilt leaf rocailles and garlands of flowers, to the reverse gilt crowed, ligated monogram framed with palm fronds, aperture with yellow metal cover, handle with sculptural acanthus leaves and wreathes and beaded friezes, circular foot with laurel wreath, octagonal plinth with relief décor, height 60 cm, Sèvres, France, apocryphal mark, late 19th cent. (Ru)
Lit.: W. Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexikon, vol. II, 1840-1914, p. 163, ill. signed painter H. Poitevin;
Louis XVI, Versailles 23.8.1754-21.1.1793 executed Paris, French king 1774-1792; Marie-Antoinette, Vienna 2.11.1755-16.10.1793 executed Paris, French queen, daughter of Maria Theresia, married the later French king, Louis XVI in 1770. Arranged for the flight of the royal family in June 1791, was incarcerated in 1792 and died in 1793;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Works of Art (Furniture, Sculpture, Glass and porcelain) |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 21.10.2015 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 10.10. - 21.10.2015 |