THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A LOUIS XVI ORMOULU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN VASE AND COVER
Details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOULU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN VASE AND COVER
The domed lid with stiff-leaf and berried finial above a pierced foliate arabesque collar, the apple-green waisted body with ram's-head handles and Etruscan frieze decorated with a central ram flanked by birds within a florally garlanded frame with neo-classical urns, above a stiff-leaf and vine base and domed spreading stepped socle with gadrooned and beaded collar, upon a white marble and ormolu square plinth with bun feet, the porcelain circa 1790, restorations to cover and socle of porcelain
10½in. (27cm.) wide; 20in. (51cm.) high
The domed lid with stiff-leaf and berried finial above a pierced foliate arabesque collar, the apple-green waisted body with ram's-head handles and Etruscan frieze decorated with a central ram flanked by birds within a florally garlanded frame with neo-classical urns, above a stiff-leaf and vine base and domed spreading stepped socle with gadrooned and beaded collar, upon a white marble and ormolu square plinth with bun feet, the porcelain circa 1790, restorations to cover and socle of porcelain
10½in. (27cm.) wide; 20in. (51cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 9 December 1993, lot 1