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拍品专文
Designed in the Louis XVI got grec taste of the mid-1770's, with their distinctive figures en arabesques or siren mounts in the manner of Etienne-Maurice Falconet, these vases almost certainly originally formed the flanking elements of a clock-garniture. In both form and scale, they are extremely closely related to two mantel clocks:- the first, with green Svres porcelain body and movement signed Lepaute A Paris, probably either Jean-Andr Lepaute (matre-horloger in 1759, retired in 1779) or his brother Jean-Baptiste (retired in 1789), was sold from the collection of Madame C. Lelong, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 11-15 May 1903, lot 866, vol. II, p. 13, illus. p. 112); the other, with movement by Martin, was sold from the collection of Sir George Lindsay Holford, Christie's London, 13-14 July 1927, lot 200.
The marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre supplied a chandelier with related gilt-bronze mermaid-figures to the marquis de Laborde for the chteau de Mreville circa 1785-8 (M. Hubert de Givenchy, sold Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 40). Corresponding closely with a watercolour design now in the muse des Arts Dcoratifs, which illustrates mermaids with scrolled acanthus bodies (figures en arabesques), as on the Alexander vases, this latter chandelier was attributed to the ciseleur-doreur Franois Rmond. Elected matre in 1774, Rmond was one of the principal bronziers working for Daguerre, and indeed supplied the latter with deliveries amounting to 920,000 livres between February 1778 and August 1792.
Such figures en arabesques appear to be characteristic of Rmond's oeuvre, often when working for Daguerre, and featured on une paire de girandoles 3 lumires, portes par des figures en arabeque supplied to the Princesse Kinsky in 1788, as well as on the paire de petits flambeaux enfant de bronze dor delivered on 22 January 1789 (C. Baulez, 'Le Luminaire de la Princesse Kinsky', L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, May 1991, pp. 98-9).
A further pair of vases of this general form and size, but with ovoid bodies, one at Waddesdon and the other sold from the Sneyd Heirlooms, Christie's London, 26 June 1964, lot 96 is discussed in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes II, Fribourg, 1974, no.208, pp. 774-5. Another, but 66.5 cm high, formerly in the Founs Collection, was sold in Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 27 June 1935, lot 88.
The marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre supplied a chandelier with related gilt-bronze mermaid-figures to the marquis de Laborde for the chteau de Mreville circa 1785-8 (M. Hubert de Givenchy, sold Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 40). Corresponding closely with a watercolour design now in the muse des Arts Dcoratifs, which illustrates mermaids with scrolled acanthus bodies (figures en arabesques), as on the Alexander vases, this latter chandelier was attributed to the ciseleur-doreur Franois Rmond. Elected matre in 1774, Rmond was one of the principal bronziers working for Daguerre, and indeed supplied the latter with deliveries amounting to 920,000 livres between February 1778 and August 1792.
Such figures en arabesques appear to be characteristic of Rmond's oeuvre, often when working for Daguerre, and featured on une paire de girandoles 3 lumires, portes par des figures en arabeque supplied to the Princesse Kinsky in 1788, as well as on the paire de petits flambeaux enfant de bronze dor delivered on 22 January 1789 (C. Baulez, 'Le Luminaire de la Princesse Kinsky', L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, May 1991, pp. 98-9).
A further pair of vases of this general form and size, but with ovoid bodies, one at Waddesdon and the other sold from the Sneyd Heirlooms, Christie's London, 26 June 1964, lot 96 is discussed in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes II, Fribourg, 1974, no.208, pp. 774-5. Another, but 66.5 cm high, formerly in the Founs Collection, was sold in Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 27 June 1935, lot 88.