A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE TURQUOISE PORCELAIN PARROTS

THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1780, THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE TURQUOISE PORCELAIN PARROTS
The mounts circa 1780, the porcelain Kangxi (1662-1722)
Each parrot perched on a pierced rockwork base, the bow-ended rectangular ormolu bases edged with beading and above a bulbous pierced foliate trefoil border enclosing a white marble base on fluted bun feet, both previously with a later twin-branch candelabra stem fitted to the reverse and a later rounded rectangular plinth between the parrot and the plinth, both of which have since been removed
11in. (28cm.) high, 6in. (16.5cm.) wide, 3in. (9.5cm.) deep (2)

Literature

Ivory Hammer 3. The Year at Sotheby's and Parke-Bernet 1964-65, London, 1965, p. 266 (illustrated with their later candelabra branches that have since been removed).

Lot Essay

A pair of Kangxi turquoise-glazed parrots of this model, raised on plainer foliate-edged oval plinths, was supplied to Marie-Antoinette for Versailles. Undoubtedly supplied by a marchand-mercier- most probably Claude-Franois Julliot or Simon-Philippe Poirier - the pair is now at the Louvre and illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dors Franais du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1987, p. 26, ill. 12.

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