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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PORPHYRY CASSOLETTES
Each with a reversible top surmounted by a foliate clasp and fruit finial, to the reverse with a circular nozzle, on a vase-shaped body with laurel garlands, and on a baluster shaft and a stepped circular base with a guilloche rim, on a concave-cornered square plinth
7½ in. (18 cm.) high (2)
Each with a reversible top surmounted by a foliate clasp and fruit finial, to the reverse with a circular nozzle, on a vase-shaped body with laurel garlands, and on a baluster shaft and a stepped circular base with a guilloche rim, on a concave-cornered square plinth
7½ in. (18 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Miss Elisabeth Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe (d. 1997). She had either acquired them by descent with Moncreiffe House, Perthshire, or by descent from her mother's family, the Ballis, of Switzerland.