Paris - First Half Of The 19th Century - Pair Of Seditious Vases With Revolutionary Decorations

Paris - Circa 1830
Pair of baluster-shaped vases depicting scenes of revolutionary battles during the "3 glorious years" of 1830.
The opposite sides are illustrated with finely painted maritime scenes.

These vases are called "seditious" because they allowed their owners to display their support for the revolutionary cause while being able to mask it in the presence of royalists by turning them over.

Seditious objects from this period deserve to be understood as political objects in their own right in a world of politicization where signs and objects occupy a central place. Sedition resides as much in the signs represented as in the display devices: they reveal the possible reversibility of powers and sovereignties.

Wear of the gilding on the 2 vases.

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