Paris, Early 19th Century - Hard Porcelain Cornet Vase - Gilded Decoration And Garland Of Flowers - Empire, Restauration

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Horn vase
Painted hard porcelain enhanced with gilding
Dimensions : H. 14 ; D. 12,5 (cm.)
Paris, first third of the 19th century

Elegant porcelain "cornet" vase painted with a garland of flowers and decorated with gilding. 

Hard porcelain in Paris in the early 19th century
Unlike earthenware factories, porcelain factories flourished under the Empire, particularly in Paris. The period 1800-1820 can be considered the golden age of porcelain in Paris. There were nineteen porcelain factories in Paris in 1800, but only seven had been founded under the Ancien Régime: Dihl et Guérard, Houzel, Lemaire et Josse, Pouyat et Russinger, Schoelcher, Despréz et Nast, etc. In contrast to the last twenty years of the 18th century, which saw a shift from rococo to antique simplicity, the first thirty years of the 19th century saw the opposite, a shift from antique sobriety to rococo. 

Condition report: a tiny tear to the base.