429 - STUNNING SECOND EMPIRE-PERIOD BOIZOT VASE IN SÈVRES PORCELAIN

STUNNING SECOND EMPIRE-PERIOD BOIZOT VASE IN SÈVRES PORCELAIN A lidded Boizot-style vase in hard porcelain, with a pink base and a paste-on-paste decoration depicting an allegory of Reading (or Music?), depicted as putti set within a network of arabesques, with a border featuring a frieze of wolf’s teeth, Greek frets, and gold lambrequins; mounted in gilded bronze, fitted with two Greek-fret-shaped handles, and resting on a square base with four spindle-shaped feet. Imperial Sèvres Manufactory, 1868. Decor by Marc-Louis-Emmanuel Solon (1835–1913), a painter active at the manufactory between 1862 and 1870. Red stamp mark featuring the crowned cipher of Emperor Napoleon III and the date (18)68 inside the neck; signed with the painter’s intertwined monogram “MLS” on the body. H. 38 cm. Related Works - A pair of Boizot vases in similar porcelain, with a pink background and paste-on-paste decoration, without lids, Imperial Sèvres Manufactory, decoration by Marc-Louis-Emmanuel Solon, 1869, Sèvres, National Manufactory and Museum (inv. MNC7693-1 & MNC7693-2) (ill. 1). - A pair of Boizot vases, made of porcelain with so-called “changeant” paste and featuring a paste-on-paste decoration of putti, with goat-head-shaped handles, Sèvres National Manufactory, 1879 and 1880, Tajan auction, Paris, “Le Bon Marché in the Time of the Boucicauts,” September 16, 2015, lot 37 (sold for €5,000). - A pair of Boizot vases made of porcelain with a pink background and a “paste-on-paste” decoration of female allegories, the decoration signed by Marc-Louis Solon, Imperial Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, 1868, Sotheby’s auction, London, November 12, 2024, lot 121.