Pair of urns decorated with seditious images
Commissioned in China by French aristocrats who emigrated after 1793, this pair of porcelain urns is based on a model from the Swedish factory in Marieberg. Neoclassical in form, they feature a central medallion with a grisaille decoration of a funeral urn. It is a seditious image in memory of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette guillotined in 1793...