Pair, French Old Paris Style Gilt Porcelain Fruit Coolers or Ice Pails 19th C.

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A fine pair of covered porcelain ice pails, or seaux à glace, in the French Old Paris taste, each modeled … Read more A fine pair of covered porcelain ice pails, or seaux à glace, in the French Old Paris taste, each modeled with a rounded bucket-form body, removable cover, scalloped rim, raised loop finial, gilt borders, and applied scroll handles. The white glazed porcelain is enriched with fine gilt linework, bead-and-scroll ornament, and shell-acanthus style molded details, giving the pair the refined dessert-service character associated with early to mid-19th-century French table porcelain.

The form relates to the luxury dining culture of the late 18th and 19th centuries, when ice pails were produced as part of elaborate dessert services for serving or presenting chilled creams, ices, and fruits. Comparable institutional examples include Sèvres seaux à glace in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Paris gilt porcelain ice cream pails by the Jacob-Petit factory in the Cleveland Museum of Art, confirming the importance of this vessel type within French porcelain production.



Measurements: 11.5" h x 9" w x 7.375" d. See less