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A LARGE SEVRES (NAPOLEON III) PORCELAIN PATE D’APPLICATION LAVENDER-GREY GROUND VASE (VASE POTICHE CHINOISE)

DATED 1857, IRON-RED CROWNED N DECORÉ MARK ABOVE 57, SIGNED J. GELY

Name: A LARGE SEVRES (NAPOLEON III) PORCELAIN PATE D’APPLICATION LAVENDER-GREY GROUND VASE (VASE POTICHE CHINOISE)
Brand: DATED 1857, IRON-RED CROWNED N DECORÉ MARK ABOVE 57, SIGNED J. GELY
Price: 26000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 32,500

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USD 15,000 - USD 25,000

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A LARGE SEVRES (NAPOLEON III) PORCELAIN PATE D’APPLICATION LAVENDER-GREY GROUND VASE (VASE POTICHE CHINOISE)

DATED 1857, IRON-RED CROWNED N DECORÉ MARK ABOVE 57, SIGNED J. GELY

Price Realised USD 32,500

Finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with amatory trophies, blossoming foxglove, dragonflies and butterflies, the mouthrim with four cartouches of butterflies against a gilt ground, the footrim with a gilt-ground floral band
27¹⁄₂ in. (69.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The sculptor-modeler and decorator Léopold-Jules-Joseph Gély joined the Sèvres manufactory in 1851 at the age of 31. The sculptor and noted pâte-sur-pâte artist Marc Louis Solon was very complimentary of Gély saying: '...Gifted with an extraordinary skill of hand, he could chisel the porcelain paste with a surety and neatness of touch usually reserved to the treatment of precious metals'.

For a pâte-sur-pâte vase by Louis Solon of the same form, see B. Ducrot, Sèvres, une histoire céramique: Second Empire & IIIeme République de l'audace á la jubilation, Turin, 2008, p. 101.