A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE, WHITE AND RED-DECORATED CELADON PORCELAIN VASES

THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1775, THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE, WHITE AND RED-DECORATED CELADON PORCELAIN VASES
The mounts circa 1775, the porcelain Kangxi (1662-1722)
Each of baluster form decorated with the eight horses of Wang Mu amongst pine trees, the flared rim mounted with water cascades, the sides each mounted with a Triton putto blowing a conch-shell, on a ribbon-tied reeded plinth and panelled base with guilloche flanked by block-rosette feet
19½in. (49.5cm.) high, 9½in. (24cm.) diameter of top (2)

Lot Essay

The porcelain bodies of these vases are almost identically decorated to the pair of Louis XV ormolu-mounted Kangxi porcelain ewers in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Differently mounted but displaying a very close composition of deer and flowering trees in underglazed copper red and blue on a similar pale grey-green celadon ground, they are illustrated in F.J.B. Watson and G.Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, pp. 48-49.

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