PARIS PAIR OF EMPIRE-PERIOD AMPHORA VASES in white and gold...
PARIS PAIR OF EMPIRE-PERIOD AMPHORA VASES in white and gold porcelain, with polychrome decoration painted in central cartouches depicting vases of flowers framed by laurel friezes on a midnight blue background with a gold vermiculated underglaze, the handles are coiled and feature a woman’s head wearing a Phrygian cap; the base has a doucine shape on a square pedestal
H. 32 cm
(damaged handles reattached)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
PARIS PAIR OF EMPIRE-PERIOD AMPHORA VASES in white and gold porcelain, with polychrome decoration painted in central cartouches depicting vases of flowers framed by laurel friezes on a midnight blue background with a gold vermiculated underglaze, the handles are coiled and feature a woman’s head wearing a Phrygian cap; the base has a doucine shape on a square pedestal
H. 32 cm
(damaged handles reattached)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
