Paris Summer Olympics Vase, Sèvres, France, 1924.
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Paris Summer Olympics Vase, Sèvres, France, 1924. Porcelain vase made for gold medalists at the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics, of elongated ovoid form with a short neck, the exterior decorated with overglaze gilt foliate on a cobalt ground, and encircled below shoulder by a chain of four medallions with pâte-sur-pâte depictions of cycling, tennis, sailing, and shooting, the bottom stamped 'RF Manufacture Nationale Décoré à Sèvres 1924', 'S 1924 DN', and 'Made in France', ht. 13, diam. 5 1/2 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein, Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey (16 February 2022), Lot 133. Literature Jean-Paul Midant, Sèvres: La Manufacture au XXème Siècle (Paris: Aveline, 1992), p. 80-1. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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