Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND CHINESE POWDER-BLUE GLAZED PORCELAIN VASES AND COVERS, each with berried pomegranate finial above laurel sprays, the circular neck bound with acorns and oak-leaves above a pierced frieze with bead-and-reel collar, the stylised channelled Greek-key handles issuing further oak and acorn baguettes and cast with acanthus C-scrolls joined by swagged ribbon-tied oak and acorn garlands, the spreading channelled base on rosette patera feet joined by oak and acorn garlands, the porcelain first half 18th Century, one with later French 19th Century porcelain cover
12in. (30.5cm.) wide; 16¼in. (41.5cm.) high (2)
12in. (30.5cm.) wide; 16¼in. (41.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939; also depicted on the chimneypiece in the interior circa 1923 of the room by E. Shepherd and in the Sir John Lavery picture of the room 'The Red Hat', dated 1925
Literature
D. Cooper ed., Great Family Collections, London, 1965, p. 222 (illustrated in situ in the Saloon)
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21 - April 5 1933, fig. 132