A pair of portrait vases depicting ‘Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’ with ‘bronze doré’ mounts,
A pair of portrait vases depicting ‘Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’ with ‘bronze doré’ mounts,
porcelain, cobalt blue body with wide, fine gilt rims, neck and foot with gilt leaf tendrils and floral stems, gilt foliate friezes, to 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 garland of flowers, verso gilt ligated monogram surmounted by a crown flanked by palm fronds, aperture with yellow metal lid, handle with sculptural acanthus leaves and wreathes with beaded friezes, circular foot with laurel wreath, octagonal plinth with décor in relief, 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 king Louis XVI in 1770. Arranged for the royal family to attempt to flee in June 1791, was imprisoned in 1792 and died in 1793;
Esperta: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
22.04.2015 - 15:00
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A pair of portrait vases depicting ‘Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’ with ‘bronze doré’ mounts,
porcelain, cobalt blue body with wide, fine gilt rims, neck and foot with gilt leaf tendrils and floral stems, gilt foliate friezes, to 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 garland of flowers, verso gilt ligated monogram surmounted by a crown flanked by palm fronds, aperture with yellow metal lid, handle with sculptural acanthus leaves and wreathes with beaded friezes, circular foot with laurel wreath, octagonal plinth with décor in relief, 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 king Louis XVI in 1770. Arranged for the royal family to attempt to flee in June 1791, was imprisoned in 1792 and died in 1793;
Esperta: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
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| Asta: | Oggetti d'arte |
| Tipo d'asta: | Asta in sala |
| Data: | 22.04.2015 - 15:00 |
| Luogo dell'asta: | Wien | Palais Dorotheum |
| Esposizione: | 11.04. - 22.04.2015 |