Sevres-style Celeste Blue Urns with Handpainted Courting Scenes
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Two Sevres style porcelain celeste blue urns, both with handpainted classical courting scenes on one side, the other side with traditional scene panels, both with surrounding gilt decoration, mounted with ornate ormolu base and twin handles with female form heads, height 63.5 cm
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- Ormolu - Ormolu was popular with French craftsmen in the 18th and 19th century for ornamental fittings for furniture, clocks and other decorative items. True ormolu is gilt bronze, that is bronze that has been coated with gold using a mercury amalgam. Due to the health risks associated with using mercury, this method of creating ormolu was discontinued in France in the 1830s. A substitute was developed consisting of about 75% copper and 25% zinc, however it was inferior to the bronze version. It was often lacquered to prevent it tarnishing.
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Sevres (France) and Sevres style, items
- house wares 265
- vases and urns 215
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