Antique Sèvres-Style Porcelain Centerpiece Bowl with Champlevé Enamel and Gilt Bronze Mounts, Signed Collot Vintage

Antique Sèvres-Style Porcelain Centerpiece Bowl with Champlevé Enamel and Gilt Bronze Mounts, Signed Collot VintageAdditional Description: A richly decorative Svres style porcelain centerpiece bowl mounted in ornate gilt bronze and accented with vibrant champlev enamel decoration. The piece features a deep cobalt blue ground highlighted with delicate gilt scrollwork and finely painted figural reserves in the Rococo taste. The central porcelain cartouches are hand painted with cherubic putti engaged in playful pastoral scenes, rendered in soft pastel tones against

likely French or Swiss

modernized forms suited to contemporary interiors

to royalty and aristocracy including Empress Eugenie

minor lifting and hairline cracking to tortoiseshell veneer consistent with age

Original Louis XVI Revival giltwood frame

active in Milan and Genoa in the early 20th century

his printing house specialized in Latin authors and philosophical works

Roll-top desks were first created in the late 18th century

The frame is richly decorated with flowing acanthus leaves

designed by Philippe Ledoux and first issued in 1963

secured with a small rivet joint

Era: Late 19th to early 20th century (Art Nouveau period)