Lot 33
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CELADON PORCELAIN CACHE-POTS, each with waved acanthus and C-scroll everted rim above a bulbous body incised with chrysanthemums and foliate-scrolls, the pierced, channelled, scrolled acanthus-handles cast with C-scrolls and terminating in flowerheads, above an asymmetrical pierced rockwork, C-scroll and acanthus base with further foliate-trails, one with printed label to the underside COLLECTION WERNHER No. 448, the porcelain Kangxi

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CELADON PORCELAIN CACHE-POTS, each with waved acanthus and C-scroll everted rim above a bulbous body incised with chrysanthemums and foliate-scrolls, the pierced, channelled, scrolled acanthus-handles cast with C-scrolls and terminating in flowerheads, above an asymmetrical pierced rockwork, C-scroll and acanthus base with further foliate-trails, one with printed label to the underside COLLECTION WERNHER No. 448, the porcelain Kangxi
14½in. (37cm.) wide; 11¾in. (30cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Acquired by Sir Julius Wernher, Bt. (d. 1912), Bath House, Piccadilly.
Thence by descent to Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire

Lot Essay

Related waved and foliate-cast rims appear on a pair of Louis XV vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, California (discussed in Sir Francis Watson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain, Washington, 1986, p. 64, no. 18)

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