A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU VASES

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU VASES

Each with spirally-fluted neck and Vitruvian-scroll band surmounted by a globular finial, the sides centred by lion-masks and hung with drapery and fruiting laurel swags, above a dished base with stiff-leaf brace and waisted stepped circular socle, on a square spreading base with ribbed and panelled sides and on a later squared red griotte marble plinth, rethreaded, probably originally furniture mounts, possibly North European
12in. (31cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Baron Guy de Rothschild, chateau de Ferrières, France, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 3 December 1994, lot 135

Lot Essay

This vase pattern, of wine-krater form with sphere-capped lid and elongated Grecian-fret handles bolted to the ribbon-tied bowl and inserted in the neck, relates to the 'Vase Grec à Médaillons' listed in the 1766 Sèvres records

A related vase with ball-finial, Vitruvian-scroll frieze, spirally-fluted collar and goût Grec handles appears in a design by Jean-Francois Neufforge (1714-91) in his Recueil élémentaire d'Architecture (1757-80) (illustrated in S. Ericksen, Early Neo-Classicsim in France, London, 1974, fig. 312)

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