A PAIR OF SEVRES BLUE-GROUND VASES, DATED 1858
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October 21, 05:47 PM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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A PAIR OF SEVRES BLUE-GROUND VASES, DATED 1858
painted by Charles Barriat, with a row of pink flowers and buds with butterflies, alternating with smaller violet and blue flowers, issuing from gilt leafy stems, the neck painted with daisies, over pale-blue grasses, each vase signed BARRIAT, and dated 1858, gilt-edged rims, printed crowned N DÉCORÉ A SÉVRES/ 58 in iron-red, S.56 in green-lozenge, one with incised mark 17C(?)-6-56, the other 17C(?)-8-54
height 12⅛ in.
30.8 cm
A pair of vases, vase Etrusque de Naples, painted by Charles Barriat with central friezes of figures was included in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. One of these vases, titled 'La Gloire', was purchased by Queen Victoria on December 17 1851 for 1800 francs and is now retained in the Royal Collection, inv. no. RCIN 34032. The pairing vase is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and was selected for the Museum by a committee consisting of Henry Cole (1808-1882), Owen Jones (1809-1874) and Richard Redgrave (1804-1888). They pronounced it 'remarkable for the elegance of general form; and the delicate treatment of the coloured decoration exhibiting the limit of light and shade applicable to pictures painted on a round surface'.
Barriat was active as a painter at Sèvres from 1848-1883.