Maison MAQUET à Paris - Seconde moitié du XIXe siècle

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Maison MAQUET à Paris - Seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Porcelain bowl in trapezoidal shape on a pedestal, with polychrome and gold landscape decoration, the border decorated with flowers on a yellow background, the heel with a wave frieze Mark TONGZHI (1862-1874) in six letters in a red stamp Later transformed into an inkwell (can be used as a smoker's kit) by the MAQUET company in Paris, the frame in vermeilla silver (signed) H. 13 cm - W. 18 cm - D. 16 cm The condition of the porcelain is not guaranteed under the frame MAQUET, a luxury paper and leather goods manufacturer founded in 1841 in Paris, became during the Second Empire the official supplier of the Empress Eugenie and a large number of European royal courts. Among his products were a number of luxury writing sets. This inkwell is an original example of the reuse of high quality Chinese art objects by the great Parisian houses of the time, reflecting the taste of the aristocratic and bourgeois elite for the Far East.
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