Lot Details
Lot 508
Pair of Sèvres Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Gilt and Hand-Painted Cobalt Ground Porcelain Two-Handled Urns with Covers
Height 35 inches.
C
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
Sold for $4,375 (includes buyer's premium)
Additional Notes & Condition Report
Each appears to be in generally good condition with the following noteworthy exceptions:
Both covers may be replacements; each ground color appears to be black or extremely dark cobalt and this coloration differs from the bodies below; one finial is bent and part of the finial is inverted; heavy wear to gilt decoration rim on the covers; both of the ring mounts at the top of the mouth of each urn is loose and currently not affixed to the porcelain body; one of the covers has a shallow flake loss to its bottom flat edge; the rim of this cover has been heightened with gold overpaint; wear and rubbing and dulling to the gilding on the metal mounts, consistent with age, usage and handling; wear and rubbing to gilding on the porcelain bodies, including the reserves, bands, scrolling foliate motifs, etc.; each porcelain body appears to be in generally good condition. Some superficial scuffs, scratch marks to the painted scenes and rubbing, not of any great consequence, neither urn appears to be artist signed; mask handles are somewhat loose and would benefit from tightening; each signed on the interior side of the mouth Sevres over the glaze; not blacklighted.
Age: appears to be late 19th /early 20th century.
Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.
Both covers may be replacements; each ground color appears to be black or extremely dark cobalt and this coloration differs from the bodies below; one finial is bent and part of the finial is inverted; heavy wear to gilt decoration rim on the covers; both of the ring mounts at the top of the mouth of each urn is loose and currently not affixed to the porcelain body; one of the covers has a shallow flake loss to its bottom flat edge; the rim of this cover has been heightened with gold overpaint; wear and rubbing and dulling to the gilding on the metal mounts, consistent with age, usage and handling; wear and rubbing to gilding on the porcelain bodies, including the reserves, bands, scrolling foliate motifs, etc.; each porcelain body appears to be in generally good condition. Some superficial scuffs, scratch marks to the painted scenes and rubbing, not of any great consequence, neither urn appears to be artist signed; mask handles are somewhat loose and would benefit from tightening; each signed on the interior side of the mouth Sevres over the glaze; not blacklighted.
Age: appears to be late 19th /early 20th century.
Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.
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