A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRIS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRIS

Each with green-ground porcelain with pink scattered roses, the domed lid with foliate finial above a pierced guilloche-band with Satyr's masks within fruiting vine leaves, the tapering cylindrical body above a foliate base and waisted foliate socle with laurel-wreathed border, on a square plinth with milles-raies panels, one lid later, the porcelain incised MG
10¼in. (26cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale at Christie's Monaco, 5 December 1993, lot 169

Lot Essay

A related garniture of pot-pourris, formerly in the collection of Mme. Jules Fribourg, is illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, plate 242

Further related goût grec vases were sold from Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, in these Rooms, 8 December 1994, lots 36 - 38

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