A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER ASSEMBLED GARNITURE

CIRCA 1750, THE LACQUER 18TH CENTURY

細節

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER ASSEMBLED GARNITURE
Circa 1750, the lacquer 18th Century
Comprising a pair of pot-pourri vases and covers and a larger central ormolu-mounted porcelain, tle peinte and lacquer pot-pourri base and cover, each with pierced foliate finial, the baluster-shaped body with pierced frieze of trailing foliage mounted with porcelain flowers, the lacquer decorated with Oriental landscapes, foliage and buildings, on pierced foliate-cast scroll feet, the central tle peinte pot-pourri vase and cover with domed lid with floral finial above a pierced foliate-trail frieze with porcelain flowerheads, on an asymmetrical rockwork base with two pug dogs flanking a green-painted tle peinte tree mounted with porcelain flowers, on pierced foliate C-scroll feet, the pugs possibly associated
7in. (18.5cm.) high, the pair; 9in. (24cm.) high, 9in. (23cm.) wide, 4in. (10cm.) deep, the single vase (3)

來源

M. et Mme. X, Neuilly.

出版

'M. et Mme. X, Neuilly', Connaissance des Arts, December 1958, p.103.

拍品專文

This exotic garniture typifies the imagination of the marchand-bijoutier Lazare Duvaux. As his Livre-Journal reveals, he was amongst the first to combine Vincennes porcelain flowerheads with gilt-bronze - even Oriental lacquer - to create whimsical objets de luxe for the Court, and it was he who supplied the closely related pair of pot-pourris vases to Madame de Pompadour, which are now in the Louvre.
A Japanese black and gold lacquer brle parfum of closely related form to the flanking elements of this garniture was sold from the collection of the late Ren Fribourg, Sotheby's London, 17 October 1963, lot 758, whilst a further pair in red lacquer was sold anonymously at Palais Gallira, Paris, 26 May 1972, lot 51. A similar pot-pourri is illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dors Franais du XVIIIe Sicle, France, 1987, p. 127, ill. 165.