NEVERS, 19th century, circa 1803 - Lot 125

Lot 125
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Result : 3 200EUR
NEVERS, 19th century, circa 1803 - Lot 125
NEVERS, 19th century, circa 1803 Earthenware BOTTLE with long neck with four branch-shaped passageways with foliage and pears. Polychrome decoration on the face of a naked Bacchus sitting astride a barrel holding in his right hand a carafe of wine and in his left hand a full glass, vine shoots on his head and around his basin. This scene is surrounded by two vine stalks rising up to form a round frame. On the back inside the same frame is written in manganèse : Enigma. I am gray, yellow, red or white, After the greatest misfortune I appeared; from mortals I soften misery To my blessed inventor, with all due respect to the reader, I showed the Backside. I am the enemy of sorrow and I make destiny brave. I force my prisons, I inspire tenderness. Love is subject to my laws, I foment, increase its drunkenness, I have said too much this time. The 29 rainfall year II. (1803). On the sides between two passers-by a rooster resting on two criss-crossing vines and the inscription above Serizier between two insects and below Julius Caesar Lefebve Serizier on the other side the inscription Lefebvre. Manganese, yellow and green speckled at the neck and shoulder with stylised flower braiding on a yellow background. H. 57,5 cm
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