Saïgon vase with centaurs

decor by Auguste Rodin

€3,400.00

VAT included

Porcelain biscuit neck vase with relief decoration. Celadon green enamel inside. Shape designed in 1880 by Albert Carrier-Belleuse for Sèvres, combined with a decoration created in 1887 by Auguste Rodin.

An objet d'art made entirely by hand by our craftsmen in the workshops of the Manufacture. Nuances and variations may appear from one piece to another, making each one almost unique.

All orders are carefully packaged and shipped in a blue and gold Sèvres case.

Materials:: Porcelaine

Measures:: H: 17 cm, diam: 10 cm

History

This piece corresponds to the second period of collaboration between Auguste Rodin and the Manufacture de Sèvres around 1887. Here Rodin uses motifs from his monumental sculpture group The Gates of Hell.

During his residency at Sèvres, he mixed techniques from the Sèvres tradition (paste on paste) with others more specifically related to his practice as a sculptor (modelling in the round and in bas-relief) and as a painter and engraver.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) worked as a decorator at the Manufacture de Sèvres from 1879 to 1882. There, he produced numerous vases decorated with figures in relief or in relief, in a variety of shapes and colours, and perfected a new technique of engraved decoration on raw clay.