Manufacture De Locré, Russinger Period - Large Medici Vase à La Salembier - Porcelain, Louis XVI, Directoire Period

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Large Medici vase
Hard porcelain enhanced with gilding
Dimensions : H. 30 ; D. 20 (cm.)
Paris, circa 1785 - 1795

A rare large Medici vase richly gilded in the Salembier style, decorated with friezes of foliage, palmettes, acanthus leaves and arabesques. The lion's head handles. The base in matching Carrara marble. Typical of the end of the reign of Louis XVI and the beginning of the revolutionary period.
The repertoire and the fine lines of the foliate ornamentation, as well as their presence in a corpus of numerous pieces executed in this style, point to an attribution to Russinger's workshop rather than to Dihl, for example.

Henri Salembier (1753 - 1820)
Henri Salembier was a Parisian painter and ornamentalist who produced a number of decorative books from 1777 onwards. These were hugely successful and were instrumental in developing the vocabulary used in the French decorative arts at the end of the Ancien Régime and during the revolutionary period. Finally, it should be noted that Henri Salembier worked in collaboration with the Manufacture du Duc d'Angoulême: Dihl and Guérhard. 

Condition report: small chips at the junction between the two parts, wear to the gilding, and chips under the lip (hardly visible in situ). An unusual piece, however. 
It is possible to have the above points restored.