Lot Essay
These vases are very similar to a pair which was sold as part of a garniture, Sotheby's Monaco, 3 March 1990, lot 179.
Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORCELAIN COVERED VASES
Each with green porcelain ovoid vessel surmounted by a beaded foliate-cast lid fitted with a fruiting finial above a waisted neck and handles cast as beaded masks suspending laurel swags, the ormolu socle cast with acanthus and piastres on an incurved panelled square plinth
15¾in. (40cm.) high (2)
Each with green porcelain ovoid vessel surmounted by a beaded foliate-cast lid fitted with a fruiting finial above a waisted neck and handles cast as beaded masks suspending laurel swags, the ormolu socle cast with acanthus and piastres on an incurved panelled square plinth
15¾in. (40cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 22-24 April 1982, lot 386