Basin In Sevres Mounted Mid 18th century

Chiseled bronze ormolu, soft paste porcelain.

This exceptional object is composed of a soft-paste porcelain basin of Sèvres mounted in a bronze structure designed in the mythological decorative vocabulary and more precisely in reference to Bacchus.
The oblong base rests on four straight fluted feet, the entablature is molded and decorated with a frieze of laurel.
Mark of great quality, the base which is also a spacer plate is covered with an elegant decoration chiseled in rosette of acanthus leaves and pampers, centered in a granite in piquetage.
Four fauns carry the basin on a rim in frieze of leaves and are bound with heavy garlands of flowers and fruits.
The handles are two different characters, a faun and a sea woman from ancient mythology.
The bronze cover of the rim of the vase is a kind of ingot mould finely and deeply chiselled with fruits and flowers too.

The celestial blue basin is decorated with a cartouche on each side representing two women surrounded by putti and flowers.
The celestial blue is covered with a gold mesh of great finesse.
The mark of Sèvres in blue on cover is matched with the letter date "O" indicating the year 1767.
The series of dots is the mark of the painter Pierre Theodore Buteux (active from 1765 to 1784) and the fleur de lys surmounting the two intertwined Ls indicates a commission from the royal family.

We are in a great work of merchant merchant who designed and made create the assembly of this basin of toilet.
The assembly of usual objects for emotional reasons was made, one even used bourdaloues.

Each cartouche presents the portrait of two women (or the same woman).
They are real portraits and not of kind but at the time they were treated at the same time differently for the same person and at the same time with an air of family (round face, large eyes), it is thus difficult to determine which person was represented here and at the end of the reign of Louis XV.

One can think but without certainties of the twins Louis Elizabeth of France and Henriette of France early disappeared (1727, 1752), the creation asked to the Manufacture of Sevres of the basin posterior of fifteen years to the disappearance of the twins having been a vow of memory.
The bronze mounting itself is transitional in its design, but it is also close to the Louis XVI decorative vocabulary, indicating that the work of the merchant could also have been made under Louis XVI.

The exceptional and charming quality of the work of the bronze is characteristic of the old regime, for example the rosettes of fixations of the basin on the bronze are in flower whose detail of chiselling is such as it is seen only with a magnifying glass.
The finesse of the deep and vivid chiseling is also a mark of the great century.

For the basin the charm of the soft paste is noticed among other things by a slight "granity" of color and surface of the celestial blue which became more uniform later on hard paste.

Condition:
Perfect for this type of object.
The only thing missing is a rosette in the tank of the basin.
Neither lack nor accident, the ormoulu is perfect, logically redone in the nineteenth century.

Dimensions :
height: 39 cm , length: 36 cm , width basin: 19.5 cm , base: 26 cm x 17 cm .

Ref 3574 / 8 , 15 kg / 62000

Ref: 2TRAZ7XP79