Auction on
06 December 2019 - 13:30 (CET) -
Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
While Versailles carried off a study by François Lemoyne for the ceiling of the Salon d'Hercule, a pair of Sèvres vases, one decorated with an antique scene after the same artist soared skyward.
Pair of ovoid vases on porcelain pedestals, ornamented respectively on one side with Orythie enlevée par Borée after François-André Vincent and Le Temps sauvant la Vérité du Mensonge et de l'Envie after François Lemoyne, and on the other with forest scenes; gilt bronze mountings; three of the paintings signed "A. Schilt Sèvres", and the fourth "Ab. Schilt Sèvres 84", h. 125 cm. Result: €393,700
Pair of ovoid vases on porcelain pedestals, ornamented respectively on one side with Orythie enlevée par Borée after François-André Vincent and Le Temps sauvant la Vérité du Mensonge et de l'Envie after François Lemoyne, and on the other with forest scenes; gilt bronze mountings; three of the paintings signed "A. Schilt Sèvres", and the fourth "Ab. Schilt Sèvres 84", h. 125 cm. Result: €393,700
There were some major surprises in Beaussant Lefèvre's sale from the very first bids. Firstly, a drawing on blue paper featuring a penned comment on the back – "n°1 Étude de l'Hercule" – already pointed the way to Versailles, consolidated by the…
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