A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN VASES AND COVERS

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1735, THE MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN VASES AND COVERS
The porcelain circa 1735, the mounts 19th Century
Each with hexagonally domed lid with finial decorated with green and blue foliage with flowers and birds above a lappeted rim, the hexagonal body with egg-and-dart rim above a hatched neck and a conforming shoulder, above the sides with birds and flowers, on a stand with pearled rim on six lion monopodiae and centred by a fruiting finial, one lid later fayence, the decoration probably Dutch and slightly later, two minor cracks to the Meissen lid, one neck with repaired breaks
16½ in. (42 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of Japanese Kakiemon vases of circa 1670/75 with closely related decoration and of identical shape, although slightly squatter, and with Régence mounts are in the Louvre, Paris (D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, p. 427, fig. 484). It is believed that this decoration was commissioned by the East India Company for the Dutch market and the vases were repeatedly, as with this lot, copied at Meissen between 1725 and 1735. A further celadon vase with the ormolu-mounts attributed to Benjamin Vulliamy of circa 1823, has similar lion monopodiae supports and is in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace (op. cit., p. 450, fig. 530).

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