Stand
Lefebre and Caron
Category
Ceramics
Date
1805
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Measurements
510 mm (H)235 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1250651
Summary
A pair of Paris porcelain neo-classical canopic flared stands, modelled with three bronzed Egyptian caryatid mummies. Their lower parts richly gilded and burnished with hiero- glyphs, decoration in the 'Retour d'Egypt' style, in niches painted to resemble marble. The marbled niches are divided by three bronzed panels with moulded gilt-entwined serpents supporting a shallow bowl. The matt-blue ground with radiating moulded gilt anthemion below a band of hieroglyphs. On a circular foot with gilt key-pattern.
Makers and roles
Lefebre and Caron, potter