A PAIR OF 'URNE MYSTERIEUSE' URNS AND COVERS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF 'URNE MYSTERIEUSE' URNS AND COVERS
Late 18th century
Each with a finely painted grisaille medallion showing the funerary urn under weeping willow, its pedestal forming the profile heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the other side with a sepia medallion showing the Royal family strolling in a landscape, all above molded husk swags, the square bases in sepia and grisaille faux marbre
14.7/8in. (37.8cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

After a popular French royalist print lamenting the 1793 overthrown of the monarchy, this subject was evidently ordered in Chinese export porcelain by a number of royalist sympathizers. A very similar pair of urns was sold Christie's London, 15 May 1995, lot 197.

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