Lot 36
Lot 36
A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PURPLE AND GOLD GROUND ICE PAILS, COVERS AND LINERS (GLACIERE VASE B)

DATED 1825, BLUE INTERLACED C MARKS (CHARLES X) ENCLOSING FLEUR-DE-LYS, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS, INDISTINCT GILT INSCRIPTION TO ONE

Price Realised USD 27,720
Estimate
USD 15,000 - USD 20,000
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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PURPLE AND GOLD GROUND ICE PAILS, COVERS AND LINERS (GLACIERE VASE B)

DATED 1825, BLUE INTERLACED C MARKS (CHARLES X) ENCLOSING FLEUR-DE-LYS, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS, INDISTINCT GILT INSCRIPTION TO ONE

Price Realised USD 27,720
Price Realised USD 27,720
Details
Each finely painted front and back with view of either 'Monastere du Mont-serrat' and 'Château de dornach' or 'Aqueduc près de L'alhambra' and 'Vue de Dornach-au-pont', the purple-ground on the sides and tops of the covers with trellis enclosing flower-heads, with gilt enriched finials, handles and socles
1234 in. (32.4 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Each of the scenes depicted on these ice pails evokes a bucolic rural idyll situated around Medieval architecture. Monastere du Mont-serrat, or Montserrat Monastery in Catalonia, is a rugged and awe-inspiring Medieval complex abutting imposing sheer cliffs roughly 30 miles northwest of Barcelona. Northern Switzerland’s Château de dornach is a Medieval castle nestled atop a hill overlooking the town of Dornach, and near to Dornach-au-pont, a small village nearby. The Moorish Aqueduc près de L'alhambra in Spain remains an imposing engineering marvel on the horizon in Granada, built in the 13th century to carry water to the fortress of Alhambra. An ice cooler of the same form painted with landscapes of Switzerland is on long term loan to the Chateau de Nyon.

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