Paris Circa 1790 - Large Medici Porcelain Vase - Salembier Decoration

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Large medicis vase

Painted hard porcelain enhanced with gilding

Dimensions : H. 30 ; D. 19 (cm.)

Paris, circa 1790

A rare large Medici vase, richly decorated in the Salembier style, with friezes of foliage, palmettes, acanthus leaves and arabesques. Beautiful daffodil background and pink cartouches with pearls. Typical of the end of the reign of Louis XVI and the beginning of the revolutionary period.

Henri Salembier (1753 - 1820)

This Parisian painter and ornamentalist produced a number of decorative books from 1777 onwards. These were hugely successful and were instrumental in developing the vocabulary used in the French decorative arts at the end of the Ancien Régime and during the revolutionary period. Finally, it should be noted that Henri Salembier worked in collaboration with the Manufacture du Duc d'Angoulême: Dihl and Guérhard.

Condition report: wear to the gilding, and restoration. Uncommon piece.