A Lovely Late 19th Century White and Gilded Sèvres Style Porcelain Box
Item # 8231
$5,750
The large, highly decorated French porcelain box with elaborate scroll decoration and raised gilding, a beautiful painted romantic scene of a courting couple to the top of lid and landscapes scenes to all sides, the painted scene to lid signed on bottom right hand corner, the interior of box painted with bouquets of flowers.
In late 1739 – early 1740 the Sèvres Porcelain Factory opened in the Royal Château of Vincennes, Sixteen years later in 1756 the factory moved to the village of Sèvres located outside of Paris and in route to Louis XV’s Palace of Versailles where it became the preeminent porcelain manufacturer in Europe. When the company ran into financial difficulties, the King who had become an avid client bought out the shareholders and became the sole owner. The factory remained in the royal family until it was nationalized following the French Revolution.
The range of objects produced in the first half of the nineteenth century was enormous, as were the types of decoration that they employed. The Sèvres factory produced ninety-two new designs for vases. The factory is still in production today.
Details:
Height – 4 inches / 10cm
Width – 12.5 inches / 32cm
Depth – 7.5 inches / 19cm
