A PAIR OF 'URNE MYSTÉRIEUSE' URNS AND COVERS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF 'URNE MYSTÉRIEUSE' URNS AND COVERS
Late 18th Century
Each with finely painted grisaille medallion showing the funerary urn under weeping willow, its pedestal forming the profile heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, one with a sepia medallion on the other side showing the Royal family strolling in a landscape, the other repeating the front, all above molded husk swags, the square bases in sepia and grisaille faux marbre
14 7/8in. (37.8cm.) high (2)

來源

Anon. sale, Christie's New York 25-26 January 2000, lot 193

拍品專文

After a popular French royalist print lamenting the 1793 overthrown of the monarchy, this subject was evidently ordered in Chinese export porcelain by a number of royalist sympathizers. A very similar pair of urns was sold Christie's London, 15 May 1995, lot 197