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Lot Essay
See Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 21 May 1997, lot 56 for a similar example.
Based on contemporary metalwork, the form of the present bottle cooler was extremely popular. J. Cordey in his Inventaire des Biens de Madame de Pompadour rédigé après son décès published in 1939 lists around 60 Saint-Cloud sea à rafraîchir located at the time of her death in 1764 as in the palaces of Versailles, Compiègne and Fontainbleau.
Cf. Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, no. 12, pp. 14-15
Based on contemporary metalwork, the form of the present bottle cooler was extremely popular. J. Cordey in his Inventaire des Biens de Madame de Pompadour rédigé après son décès published in 1939 lists around 60 Saint-Cloud sea à rafraîchir located at the time of her death in 1764 as in the palaces of Versailles, Compiègne and Fontainbleau.
Cf. Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, no. 12, pp. 14-15