Manifattura Vieux Paris - Vase - Vase with rosettes in coin-gold - durable porcelain - Pastoral Portrait

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Condition
The vase is in excellent conservative condition. The porcelain is intact, free of chips or professional restorations. The 24k gold gilding shows only a very slight and charming patina of time on the most exposed edges, which authenticates its age and original character. The central painting is perfectly preserved, with colors that remain vivid and bright.

History of the Bucolic Painting
The portrait depicts a young country girl wearing a straw hat (chapeau de paille), an iconographic theme rooted in the works of Jean-Baptiste Greuze and François Boucher. This subject celebrates the return to nature and the purity of rural life, an ideal that European nobility loved to contrast with the frenzy of the early Industrial Revolution. The rose held in her hands symbolizes youth and ephemeral beauty, making this vase a true allegory of Spring.

Provenance and Prestige
This piece comes from a private collection of a historic continental high-bourgeoisie family. This specific type of vase, featuring intricate openwork and gold applications, was exclusively intended for formal reception rooms (grand salons). It was used as a centerpiece for dried floral arrangements or as a prestigious display piece on marble mantels. It is a work that reflects the opulent taste of an era when porcelain was rightfully called "white gold."

Technical Detail
The gilding is not a simple paint, but genuine gold applied by fire and hand-burnished with an agate stone. This traditional technique allows for the alternation of glossy and satin finishes, creating light reflections that modern porcelain simply cannot replicate.