A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) ORMOLU-MOUNTED POWDERED LAVENDER AND GOLD-GROUND VASE (VASE 'LAGRENEE', 1ERE GRANDEUR)

Of baluster form, each side painted with a mythological scene within a canted rectangular panel edged with chased gilt ribbon and a laurel wreath enclosing a classical mask medallion below, depicting Jupiter and Danae to one side and Suzanne at her Bath to the other, centering a broad burnished gold-ground band decorated with arabesques after Henri Salembier, the lower body with a border of green and pink stiff-leaves against a gold ground, the flared neck and foot with powdered lavender-ground bands painted with tight bouquets of flowers linked by a filet and edged with laurel, the neck with lozenge-shaped gilt-framed carmine-ground classical figure cameos en grisaille below suspended flower garlands, the rim and foot with gilt egg-and-dart borders, mounted in ormolu with twin classical winged female handles and a beaded border around the shoulder, on a gilt-metal square base
27 ½ in. (69.9 cm.) high