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Jacob Petit, monogram in cobalt blue in the paste
Pair of bottles
Hard porcelain, painted and enhanced with gilding
Dimensions: H. 26 and 24; L. 12.5; P. 7 (cm.)
Paris, around 1830 - 1848
Rare and very decorative pair of anthropomorphic troubadour style bottles. On the one hand, a minstrel or troubadour dressed in 15th century style playing the harp and on the other hand, a singer with a dove (?) dressed in the same style. Very great profusion of colors and gilding making the difference between the productions of Jacob Petit's workshop and those anonymous, in his own way, but less complex.
Jacob Petit
A genius designer and technician, he renewed the field of hard porcelain, the main manufactures of which gradually experienced difficulties under the July Monarchy. Alas, Jacob Petit is not spared, and his sense of renewal by themes "from elsewhere": Ottoman, Far Eastern, Iberian models; as well as its ability to put into production polychromy and rich gilding did not prevent it from going bankrupt in 1848...
Condition report: accidents to the harp, one wing, chips and wear. It is possible to have all these points restored.
Ref: OOM6PKF42A