Lot 38
38
A GARNITURE OF THREE LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND SEVRES APPLE-GREEN PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS, each with domed lid surmounted by a pine-cone finial above an entrelac collar with pierced foliate entrelac frieze issuing twin panelled stylised Greek-key handles terminating in lion-masks flanked by bells, the tapering cylindrical body above a gadrooned base and acanthus and oak-bound circular spreading socle with stylised Greek-key cast base, restorations to one lid, restorations to porcelain and possibly reglazed, the lid inscribed IJ LOUIS/JEUX'

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A GARNITURE OF THREE LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND SEVRES APPLE-GREEN PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS, each with domed lid surmounted by a pine-cone finial above an entrelac collar with pierced foliate entrelac frieze issuing twin panelled stylised Greek-key handles terminating in lion-masks flanked by bells, the tapering cylindrical body above a gadrooned base and acanthus and oak-bound circular spreading socle with stylised Greek-key cast base, restorations to one lid, restorations to porcelain and possibly reglazed, the lid inscribed IJ LOUIS/JEUX'
The central vase 7¼in. (18.5cm.) wide; 11in. (28cm.) high
The flanking vases 7in. (18cm.) wide; 10¾in. (27cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Oval Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939
Literature
D. Cooper ed., Great Family Collections, London, 1965, p. 234 (illustrated in situ in the Drawing-Room)
Exhibited
Possibly London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21-April 5 1933, no. 527 ('a garniture of five green Sèvres vases') (Catalogue, p. 73)

Lot Essay

Designed in the 'goût grec', these vases, with their bacchic lion-mask Grecian-fretted mounts, are closely related to the central vase of the garniture formerly in the collection of Mme. Jules Fribourg (illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, p. 363, pl. 242). Eriksen draws attention to another set of vases sold from the collection of Erich von Goldschmidt- Rothschild (Ball und Graupe, Berlin, 23 March 1931, lot 206) which bore the date letter for 1769

A further related garniture from the Jaime Ortiz-Patin Collection was sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992, lot 31

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