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An Ornate Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Blue Ground Mantel Clock. The shaped rectangular case painted with Venus and Cupid in a 'jewelled' gilt...
Dimensiones
Height: 50 cm (20 in)Width: 25 cm (10 in)
Depth: 15 cm (6 in)
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An Ornate Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Blue Ground Mantel Clock.
The shaped rectangular case painted with Venus and Cupid in a ‘jewelled’ gilt panel below a dial painted with a winged putto among clouds. The front of the clock has gilt-bronze trailing flowers draped above the clock face. The sides of the clock case have shaped painted panels in ‘jewelled’ gilt borders. The clock case is surmounted by a compressed urn and cover, painted with a putto within a shaped ‘jewelled’ gilt border and mounted with a gilt-metal flame finial.
The base has a gilt-bronze swag of flowers centered by a female mask within a shield.
Fecha
Alrededor de 1880
Origen
Francia
Medio
Porcelana
The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory was founded to the east of Paris in the disused Royal Château of Vincennes, late in 1739-40. and moved to the village of Sèvres, west of Paris in 1756, en route to King Louis XV’s palace of Versailles.
Here it was also adjacent to Louis’s mistress Madame de Pompadour’s own château at Bellevue. She was delighted with the factory’s new location – as she knew she could entice Louis to take a greater interest in it when it was so near their own residences. Indeed, the King became such a keen patron of the factory that, when it ran into financial difficulties, he bought out the shareholders and became the sole proprietor. The factory remained a royal enterprise until the French Revolution, when it was nationalised.
The popularity of the Louis XV style during the nineteenth century led to a number of companies in and around Paris, creating exceptional Sèvres-Style porcelain based on eighteenth century models and to the same exceptional quality. Often these pieces were of exhibition quality and scale, and finely painted by the best studio painters of the day such as Robert, Desprez and Poitevin.
