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Decorator, Furniture, Console Pendule Vases, XVII Siecle, From the Collection M L. Double, Plate 12, 1864
Decorator, Furniture, Console Pendule Vases, XVII Siecle, From the Collection M L. Double, Plate 12, 1864
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Date: 1864
Engraver: Delatre
Published by Goupil and Co, Editors, in Paris
Paper Size: 445 x 305mm
Print Size: 280 x 220mm
Condition: Good
Technique: Copperplate Engraving. Later hand colouring
Price: $200
Description:
Only a few details remain to be described. Beneath this elegant console, Cupid, seated on a sheaf of myrtles & laurels, leans his hand on a fleur- de- lis globe, & the clasps of the crown are formed by dolphins. It is still a dolphin which is born with the delicate allusion of a sun whose rays alternate 1 with hearts and forget- me- nots. The beads, which wrap around the feet of the furniture, below the garlands of allegorical flowers, recall the necklaces and toys of a small child. The vases are of the finest size & as heroic in appearance as porcelain. The attributes are by Chulot (he signed a monogram simulating two sixteenth notes), after Bachelier, and the scenes by Morin, after Genest. These compositions are arranged with remarkable liveliness and very freely painted: in one, French troops capture works defended by artillery; in the other, they overthrow the enemy in the orchards which precede the village of Fontenoy. The bottom of the vases is pink veined with gold & blue. Between green palms, the three escutcheons, other than the painted one, offer triumphal, mural & obsidional crowns. The pendulum describes itself. The bas- relief of the base is vivid like terracotta. The hours & minutes are read on the zones of the double dial which rotates horizontally.
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