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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE IRON-RED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1770, THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE IRON-RED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS
Circa 1770, the porcelain 18th Century
The baluster shaped bodies and domed lids decorated with stylized shrubs and flowers on an iron-red ground, the domed lid with berried foliate finial and acanthus clasp above a gadrooned rim and pierced entrelac pounced frieze, flanked by fluted voluted scrolls with pounced panels and pendant triglyphs, the circular reeded, pounced base above a domed and gadrooned finial, on patera-headed and husk-trailed tapering block feet
16¼in. (41cm.) high, 8¼in. (20.5cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

The collection of M. et Mme. B. at the château d'Etiolles, France between 1900-50.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 15 June 1996, lot 159 (751,700 FFr.).

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This lot has no reserve.

Lot Essay

The château d'Etiolles was originally the home of M. Lenormand d'Etiolles, the husband of Mme. de Pompadour.

A futher pair of vases of this exact model was sold from the collection of Wendell Cherry, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1994, lot 36 ($178,500).

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