PAIR OF “MEDICI” VASES

Commissioned on October 31, 1810.
BY THE IMPERIAL GARDE-MEUBLE AND DELIVERED IN 1812 TO “SERVE FOR THE DECORATION OF THE IMPERIAL GARDENS ET PALACES”

SARREGUEMINES, FABRY AND UTZSCHNEIDER MANUFACTURE

France, Sarreguemines, Utzschneider & Co. manufacture, Empire period, 1810-1812.

Fine Sarreguemines pottery in imitation of “brown and white porphyry”; gilt bronze.

Total H. with bronze base: 68 cm. (26 ¾ in.); D. 54 cm. (21 ¼ in.).

PROVENANCE: delivered in 1812 by Joseph Fabry and François-Paul Utzschneider, manufacturers in Sarreguemines, on behalf of the Imperial Garde-Meuble, following the large order placed by the Garde-Meuble with the Sarreguemines manufacturers on 31^st October 1810; placed in storage in the warehouses of the Garde-Meuble Impérial; sent to Rome in 1819; most likely sold by the estates during the 19^th century.

LITERATURE: Chantal Gastinel-Coural, “L’ambassade de France à Vienne: décor intérieur et ameublement (1907-1914)”, Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français, 1990, p. 276 and 288, note 140; Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel and Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Le mobilier de Versailles, chefs-d’œuvre du XIX^e siècle, Dijon, 2009, p. 302-303, cat. n° 114; Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Ambassade de France à Vienne, place Schwartzenberg, Paris, Éditions internationales du patrimoine, 2011.

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