MANUFACTURE DE SÈVRES , VERS 1847 Lot n° 21

VASE "CRATER" Scenes painted by Michel Nicolas Eustache Hyacinthe Polyclès LANGLOIS (active 1846-1872) Hard porcelain Marked with interlaced LPs and dated 1847 The cartels are signed Polyclès Langlois and P Langlois H. 31 cm, L. without handles 37.5 cm Bibliography: T. Préaud (dir.), The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the triumph of art and industry, 1800-1847, London, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, Yale University Press, 1997, p. 287. Large hard porcelain "crater" vase with scrolled handles, with a gold lyre in the centre, decorated on a lapis lazuli blue background on each side with a rectangular storeroom representing, for one, a view of the Château des Tuileries, residence of the d'Orléans family in France and, for the other, the Château de Twickenham, residence of the d'Orléans family during their exile in England. The blue background is richly adorned with gold-backed motifs of rosettes, palms, oves, chevrons and friezes of leaves framing the cartels, as well as windows on the pedestal. The landscape paintings are signed by Polyclès Langlois and the inside of the cup bears the stamped mark of Sèvres and the date 1847. The shape of this vase, which is related to a cup, was designed in 1806 by Alexandre Brongniart, director of the Sèvres manufactory from 1800 to 1847. A drawing of the "crater" vase with decoration from the Tuileries and Twickenham castles, signed by Antoine- Gabriel Willermet, kept at the Sèvres manufactory (fig.1). The shape was also used for the "crater" vase set with medallions designed by Jean Charles François Leloy in 1818-1819, of which an example in porcelain with crystal medallions is kept at the Cité de la céramique in Sèvres (fig. 2). Several deliveries of "crater" vases with a similar decoration are mentioned in the sales archives. A first example, which had a slight crack, entered the sale