Lot 250

250

A FRENCH 'JAPONISME' PARCEL-GILT, PATINATED-BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL JARDINIERE

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A FRENCH 'JAPONISME' PARCEL-GILT, PATINATED-BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL JARDINIERE

BY CHRISTOFLE ET CIE, DESIGNED BY EMILE REIBER (1826-1893), PARIS, 1873

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A FRENCH 'JAPONISME' PARCEL-GILT, PATINATED-BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL JARDINIERE
BY CHRISTOFLE ET CIE, DESIGNED BY EMILE REIBER (1826-1893), PARIS, 1873
Of rectangular shape with cloud-form handles, each convex side inset with polychrome enamel panels depicting flowering lotus, wisteria, and prunus, with removeable gilt-metal liner, signed 'CHRISTOFLE & CIE' and numbered '803094'
7 in. (18 cm.) high; 17 ¼ in. (43.5 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The Christofle Archives, Paris, has Emile Reiber’s 1872 preparatory drawings for this model (with a yellow rather than blue ground) entitled ‘jardinière rectangulaire sur 4 pieds, avec décor de glycines sur fond jaune et motif de grecque damasquiné sur le pourtour’. A jardinière, apparently with blue ground like the present lot, was shown at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 as a garniture de cheminée together with a pair of five-light candelabra described as girandole pomme de pin. A pair of candelabra of this model sold Christie’s, London, 18 September 2014, lot 265 (£25,000).

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