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Lot Essay
Ordered by Captain Fernando Valdes y Tamon, Governor-General of the Philippines under Philip V. See note to preceding lot.
One a replacement made by Samson et Cie in the 19th century.
One pair of Valdes y Tamon's soldier vases (each set may have comprised four or six originally) remains in Mexico, and is illustrated by J. Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in America, p. 48. The author notes that one of the covers on the pair she illustrates (which are not the original covers, though they are period Chinese) was restored in Mexico in 1846, a century after the vases were made.
One a replacement made by Samson et Cie in the 19th century.
One pair of Valdes y Tamon's soldier vases (each set may have comprised four or six originally) remains in Mexico, and is illustrated by J. Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in America, p. 48. The author notes that one of the covers on the pair she illustrates (which are not the original covers, though they are period Chinese) was restored in Mexico in 1846, a century after the vases were made.