AN IRON-RED, GILT AND TURQUOISE SOLDIER VASE AND COVER

MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN IRON-RED, GILT AND TURQUOISE SOLDIER VASE AND COVER
Mid-18th century
Finely painted with a prancing doe arching her neck towards a spotted stag in a lattice-fenced garden, sacred fungus growing beside them and two large crane mimicking their encounter to one side, the scene continuing with a pair of pheasant gazing at each other, one swimming beside lotus and butterflies hovering nearby, all between elaborate, deep lappet borders and all rendered in delicate tones of iron-red, peach, grisaille, sepia and gilt, the grass a bright blue-green
53½in. (136cm.) high

Provenance

The collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post at Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach, sold by Donald J. Trump, Christie's New York, 30 March 1995, lot 23

Lot Essay

This vase was featured in the lavish double-height, Venetian style drawing room architect Joseph Urban created for Mrs. Post in Palm Beach. The vase's subtle coloring echoed the room's gilded Romanesque panelling, which incorporated rare silk needlework panels from a Venetian palazzo, and which reached up to a coffered ceiling modelled after the Accademia's, while its bright blue-green related to the room's magnificent view of the Atlantic Ocean

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