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Large Sevres Style Comport, Circa 1880.
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Large Sevres Style Comport, Circa 1880.

19th century
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A very good quality late 19th Century French Sevres style porcelain and pierced gilded ormolu comport. Having a turquoise ground, with gilded highlights and an inset hand painted panel depicting a hunting scene. Wonderful gilded caryatid handles to either side.

Batch 82. 54811. SSKZ

Date of Manufacture

Patrick Moorhead Antiques has dated this Sevres Style Porcelain Comport to the 19th Century.

Physical Dimensions
Height
49cm (19.29")
Width
49cm (19.29")
Depth
35cm (13.78")
Reference Numbers
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SA1122279
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SKU00002417
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Description
A very good quality late 19th Century French Sevres style porcelain and pierced gilded ormolu comport.
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Having a turquoise ground, with gilded highlights and an inset hand painted panel depicting a hunting scene.
Patrick Moorhead Antiques

Wonderful gilded caryatid handles to either side.

Batch 82. 54811. SSKZ

Date of Manufacture

Patrick Moorhead Antiques has dated this Sevres Style Porcelain Comport to the 19th Century.

Height
49cm (19.29")
Width
49cm (19.29")
Depth
35cm (13.78")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Ref
SA1122279
Dealers Internal Ref
SKU00002417
Patrick Moorhead Antiques
Patrick Moorhead Antiques
Sellingantiques verified Since Feb 2018

Patrick moorhead has been one of the uk's finest trade-only antique furniture and art dealers for over 30 years.

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A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base.
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Archive I A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base.

Large Sevres Style Comport, Circa 1880.

Archive II A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View II
Archive III A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View III
Archive IV A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View IV
Archive V A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View V
Archive VI A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View VI
Archive VII A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View VII
Archive VIII A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View VIII
Archive IX A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base. View IX
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Patrick Moorhead Antiques

Patrick Moorhead Antiques
Telephone 077 1010 7505
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76 Church Street
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 1RL
United Kingdom
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Patrick Moorhead Antiques
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A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base.
Large Sevres style comport, circa 1880.
Ref: SA1122279
A nineteenth-century Sevres style light-blue porcelain comport decorated with hand-painted equestrian scenes, featuring gilt-bronze caryatid handles, a reticulated rim, and a pedestal base.
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  • ObjectCentrepieces & Comports
  • Period19th century
  • StyleFrench Rococo Revival
  • MaterialPorcelain, Ormolu, Gilt Bronze
  • ColourLight Blue, Gold
  • MotifsCaryatid handles, Reticulated rim, Equestrian scene, Pedestal base
  • SizeH 49 cm (19 in) x W 49 cm (19 in) x D 35 cm (14 in)

This large nineteenth-century French Rococo Revival centrepiece combines light-blue porcelain with gilt-bronze and ormolu mounts. The body holds a turquoise-blue glazed porcelain bowl encircled by a pierced reticulated ormolu rim with scrollwork patterns, flanked by cast ormolu caryatid handles depicting female figures with elaborate braided hairstyles. The central section displays a hand-painted equestrian hunting scene showing riders on horseback in a landscape, bordered by gilded scrollwork and highlights. A turned pedestal with leaf-moulded gilt bands sits on a square stepped ormolu base decorated with cast floral and ribbon motifs on the feet. Practical for display on a large sideboard top in a dining room or drawing room, the object measures 49 cm high, 49 cm wide, and 35 cm deep. The combination of turquoise-blue glaze, polished gold-tone metalwork, and classical figural hardware creates a formal decorative centrepiece for a traditional interior setting.

FAQs

Sevres style porcelain refers to late nineteenth-century ceramics produced across Europe that emulated the design language, ground colours, elaborate gilding, and hand-painted figurative vignettes popularized by the Royal Factory of Sevres during the eighteenth century.

These decorative pieces typically combine soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain with cast bronze mounts, which are finished using mercury gilding or electroplating techniques to create an ormolu surface.

Authentic nineteenth-century pieces feature hand-painted artwork signed by porcelain artists, high-density chased gilt-bronze fittings, distinctive ground glaze colours such as bleu celeste or rose Pompadour, and specific pseudo-Sevres factory marks painted on the glaze underside.

Position the comport as a focal point on a dark wood sideboard, marble console table, or central dining table, allowing its vibrant ground colour and gilded metalwork to contrast against neutral wall tones.

Dust gently using a soft, dry microfibre cloth or natural hair brush. Avoid water, abrasive chemical cleaners, or metal polishes on the gilt bronze, as moisture can damage both the gilded surface coating and the delicate overglaze enamel painting.
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