Pair Of Rare Large Mounted Vases 19th Century

19th century
Second Empire style, Napoleon III style
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From: 33390, Plassac, France

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    Description :
    Chiseled gilt bronze, porcelain.

    These mounted objects each consist of a Japanese Satsuma vase and a bronze frame.
    The ovoid vase has a neck in the shape of radiating petals and ribs.
    It is decorated with birds and flowering branches on a pink background.
    The handles are in the purest neo-Gothic style, dragons and interlacing, of excellent quality.
    The square base is stepped.
    This is a typical creation of a luxury item sold by the Parisian department stores of the second half of the 19th century.
    Buyers working for these stores went to Asian countries and brought back ceramics that bronze workers assembled into vases, candelabras, centerpieces... This work was inspired by that of the mercantile merchants of the Ancien Régime.
    Here, the mixture of genres is bold, we are at the time of the glory of Violet Le Duc whose decorative vocabulary medieval for the handles dragons. These vases have adorned a bourgeois interior in one of the Haussmann buildings that were just built.
    These vases are particularly unusual, perhaps they were commissioned, indeed the mixture of neo-gothic and a very pure Satsuma is a rarity, but it "works aesthetically", carried also by a very beautiful quality of work for both the vase and the bronze.
    In the perspective of the great universal exhibitions of this period, the manufacturers competed in technical prowess and audacity. Creating a genre that will be called later:
    "The Second Empire Spectacular".
    Our vases are completely in the vein of these works

    Condition :
    Perfect condition, very slight wear of the ground gold on the bases.

    Dimensions :
    Height: 62 cm , base: 19 cm x 19 cm , width handles: 40 cm .

    Ref 3578 / 22, 30 kg / 10500

    Ref: LC6328KZ12

    Condition Very good
    Style Second Empire style, Napoleon III style (Porcelain vases of Second Empire style, Napoleon III style Style)
    Period 19th century (Porcelain vases 19th century)
    Country of origin France
    Shipping Time Ready to ship in 2-3 Business Days
    Location 33390, Plassac, France
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