A Large Paris (probably Schoelcher factory) Porcelain Gold-Ground Topographical Vase, Circa 1820

A Large Paris (probably Schoelcher factory) Porcelain Gold-Ground Topographical Vase, Circa 1820

of flattened oval section with a flared rim, affixed with matt and burnished two-tone stiff acanthus leaf handles, painted on either side with a large panel to showing a group of figures in front of a summer house or a group resting by a riverside, the lower section applied with stiff acanthus leaves, upon a spreading foot and rectangular based, with tooled gilt anthemion, flower rosettes and trophies, incised No 11

height 21 1/4 in.
53.3 cm

Condition Report:
One handle broken and re-stuck approximately at its midpoint. To the lower part of the main body of the vase, located at the acanthus leaves, a D-shaped section has been restuck, formed of a D-shaped section 4 cm high x 11 cm wide.

Catalogue Note:
A pair of vases of this form and scale painted with pastoral landscapes sold at Sotheby's Paris, April 20, 2012, lot 218.