Nicolas BUGEARD (1808 - ?) - Lot 236

Nicolas BUGEARD (1808 - ?) Pair of polychrome hard porcelain horn vases with a turquoise-blue background enhanced by gilding. They feature a couple in 18th-century clothes leaning on cornucopias decorated with foliage in light relief, enhanced by two medallions in reserve with painted decorations of a bagpiper and a woman emerging from a thatched cottage. Circa 1850. Height: 35.5 cm each (man with one foot missing) Bibliography * A similar pair of vases, predominantly green, is held in the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris under no. 22766 A and B. * Paris Romantique, 1815-1848 : Paris : Petit Palais, May 22 - September 15, 2019. Leribault, Christophe; Bruson, Jean-Marie; Champy-Vinas, Cécilie. Paris : Paris Musées, 2019. Cat. 74, reproduced on p. 86. * L'art de vivre à l'époque de George Sand / Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Anne; Grandry (de), Marie-Noëlle. Paris : Flammarion, 1999. Reproduced on p. 147.