A pair of porcelain "Medici" vases with faux cameo decor - image-1
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A pair of porcelain "Medici" vases with faux cameo decor - image-1A pair of porcelain "Medici" vases with faux cameo decor - image-2

Lot 981 Dα

A pair of porcelain "Medici" vases with faux cameo decor

Auction 1075 - overview Cologne
18.11.2016, 17:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 11.160 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of porcelain "Medici" vases with faux cameo decor

Decorated with large, finely painted faux cameos on chocolate brown ground, inscribed ''FLORE ZEPHYRE" and "VENUS MARS". To the reverse large reserves with pastoral scenes. The handles with finely modelled mascaron terminals. Incised marks C and N. The screw fixtures repaced. Retouches. H 36.3, D 27 cm.
The painting attributed to Louis-Bertin Parant, on French porcelain, perhaps from the Schoelcher manufacture, rue Faubourg Saint-Denis, ca. 1820 - 30.

Louis-Bertin Parant (1768 - 1851) was a pupil of Jean Leroy and trained as a portrait and narrative painter. He found work as a special employee of the Sèvres manufactory in 1806. He was considered one of the most important cameo painters of his era.

Literature

Cf. the cameo portrait of Napoleon I signed by Parant in the Twinight Collection, New York (cat. Rafinesse & Eleganz, 2007, no. 8). For the shape of the vases see de Plinval de Guillebon, Faience et porcelaine de Paris, Dijon 1995, p. 410/411.