A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS

THE ORMOLU MOUNTS CIRCA 1775, THE JAPANESE PORCELAIN SAK FLASKS EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND PROBABLY DECORATED IN HOLLAND CIRCA 1730-40

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS
The ormolu mounts circa 1775, the Japanese porcelain sak flasks early 18th century and probably decorated in Holland circa 1730-40
Painted overall in Kakiemon colours with peacocks, birds, flowering shrubs and banded hedge, each with domed lid with berried laurel-leaf finial and pierced entrelac frieze with laurel sprays and pendants to the angles, on a stepped moulded base edged with ribbon-twist and guilloche, on shallow bracket feet, rethreaded
10in. (26.5cm.) high, 4in. (11.5cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

A square sak flask of this shape in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1978.513) was exhibited at the British Museum, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, 1990, London, p. 241, No. 263.
For a discussion on the historically important but still under-researched Dutch decorators of oriental porcelain in the first half of the 18th Century, see J.V.G Mallet, 'European Ceramics and the Influence of Japan,' op cit, pp, 39-44.

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