Lot Essay
For a short account of the Villeroy-Mennecy concern, see Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, a cataolgue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, pp. 48 and 49
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CIRCA 1735
Details
SIX SILVER-MOUNTED MENNECY (VILLEROI-LE-ROY) OCTAGONAL BLADE HANDLES
Circa 1735
Of tapering octagonal section, painted in underglaze blue and turquoise and overglaze iron-red and yellow with Orientals among pagods, trees and flowering shrubs, with insects and with birds in flight, 49in. (124.5cm.) long; together with a silver-mounted Mennecy (Duc de Villeroy) blade handle painted in underglaze blue and turquoise and overglaze iron-red and yellow with chinoiserie vignettes and enriched in blue and yellow, steel mount and blade, circa 1738, 3in. (8.9cm.) wide, and a Berlin blade handle painted with a peasant girl and a hunter in landscape vignettes, mounted as a lozenge-shaped blade, 19th century, 3in. (9.5cm.) wide (8)
Circa 1735
Of tapering octagonal section, painted in underglaze blue and turquoise and overglaze iron-red and yellow with Orientals among pagods, trees and flowering shrubs, with insects and with birds in flight, 49in. (124.5cm.) long; together with a silver-mounted Mennecy (Duc de Villeroy) blade handle painted in underglaze blue and turquoise and overglaze iron-red and yellow with chinoiserie vignettes and enriched in blue and yellow, steel mount and blade, circa 1738, 3in. (8.9cm.) wide, and a Berlin blade handle painted with a peasant girl and a hunter in landscape vignettes, mounted as a lozenge-shaped blade, 19th century, 3in. (9.5cm.) wide (8)
Provenance
Tony Stevenson, 83 A-F; Christie's London, 11 March 1996, lot 92 (the group of six blade handles)