An Impressive Sèvres Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Porcelain Vase and Cover, the base with an Integral Clock

An Impressive Sèvres Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Porcelain Vase and Cover, the base with an Integral Clock

This large and unusual vase has a domed cover with an acorn finial above a trumpet shaped neck with a gilt-bronze collar supporting two finely cast putti holding foliate garlands.The main body of the vase is of inverted ovoid form with a cobalt blue ground centred by a finely painted vignette of Venus, Adonis and Cupid to the front and a naturalistic landscape to the reverse, all within tooled, gilt and jewelled reserves. The vase is supported by a conforming pedestal centred by a circular porcelain clock dial painted with cherubs and Roman Numerals. The sides with conforming pastoral vignettes. The square section gilt-bronze base having finely cast gilt-bronze cherubs playing the horn to each corner.

The clock movement stamped ‘Hersanti, Paris’.

In late 1739- early 1740 the Sèvres Porcelain Factory opened in the Royal Château of Vincennes, Sixteen years later in 1756 the factory moved to the village of Sèvres located outside of Paris and in route to Louis XV’s Palace of Versailles where it became the preeminent porcelain manufacturer in Europe. When the company ran into financial difficulties, the King who had become an avid client bought out the shareholders and became the sole owner. The factory remained in the royal family until it was nationalized following the French Revolution.

The range of objects produced in the first half of the nineteenth century was enormous, as were the types of decoration that they employed. The Sèvres factory produced  ninety-two new designs for vases. The factory is still in production today.
Details:

Height – 49 inches / 125cm
Width – 18 inches / 46cm