Pewter Plates Engraving

Has Philippe Poitevin and A.E. Carrier/Belleuse ever collaborated in the manufacture of pedestals?

I have a pedestal of a French wheat harvester with both artists name. Poitevin on the pedestal base plate and "A. Carrier" engraved at the foot of the harvester statue. It is bronzed and made of a white metal not yet identified, could be pewter.

Carrier-Belleuse, Albert-Ernest Date of birth: 1824.06.12
Other name: Carrier de Belleuze, Albert Ernest; Carrier, Albert;
Date of death: 1887.06.04 / 1887.06.03?
Place(s) cited: Paris; London; Stoke-on-Trent (Staffordshire) Sèvres
French sculptor and designer, He instructed Auguste Rodin.

He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the 19th century, producing portrait busts, monuments and ideal works, as well as exploiting to the full the commercial opportunities offered by developing technology for the mass production of small-scale sculpture and decorative wares. His style ranged from the unembellished Realism of his male portraits to the neo-Baroque exuberance of his architectural decoration, and his art is particularly associated with the amiable opulence of the Second Empire. He signed his works A. Carrier until c. 1868, thereafter adopting the name Carrier-Belleuse.

Carrier-Belleuse produced his own terracotta editions of gallant themes in the Rococo spirit, sometimes reductions of his Salon exhibits. Statuettes and groups were cast in moulds and then reworked while still wet to ensure a fresh, crisp surface. These pieces were sold by the artist, sometimes at auction. A similar diversity of themes and media characterized his applied designs. Supported by his reputation as a serious sculptor, he executed lavish one-off pieces, for instance a silvered bronze chimney-piece (1866) for the mansion of the courtesan and patron Païva, on the Champs-Elysées, Paris. He also continued to collaborate with commercial manufacturers to exploit the opportunities inherent in mass production, devoting as much care to the design of such a mass-produced object as his zinc clockcase (e.g. 1867; London, V&A) as to a unique de luxe one.

In 1876 Carrier-Belleuse was made artistic director of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory to reform what were seen at the time as the aesthetic excesses of the previous decades. He devoted himself to revitalizing Sèvres with dozens of new designs, such as the ‘Vase Carrier-Belleuse’ (e.g. 1883; Paris, Hôtel du Sénat).

http://www.harrisantiques.com/Carrier-Belleuse_Albert-Ernest.php?PHPSESSID=597e761cde6ca83

http://www.trocadero.com/directory/Antiques:Decorative_Art:Ceramics2960.html

http://www.sheryls-artdeco.co.uk/sculptors.html

http://www.antiquetrader.com/mark/default,month,2007-10.aspx

http://www.jansantiques.com/Glossary.html

http://www.askart.com/AskART/artist.aspx?artist=9000997&redir

http://www.artnet.com/artist/553434/albert-ernest-carrier-belleuse.html

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Rodin-Au.html

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