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拍品專文
Designed in the late Louis XV goût Grecque style, these vases reflect the influence of the ornameniste Jean-Charles Delafosse. A vase of similar character, forming the central vase of a garniture of five vases acquired by the 5th Earl of Essex in Paris (d.1839) shortly after the Revolution, forms part of the Hodgkins Bequest at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (illustrated in S. de Ricci, Catalogue of a Collection of Mounted Porcelain belonging to E.M. Hodgkins, Paris, 1911, p.42).
Although the bronzier remains anonymous, the Hodgkins vases in turn relate to Prince Auguste d'Arenberg's (1753-1833) garniture to be sold from the collection formed by Monsieur and Madame Riahi, Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 25. This latter garniture, together with another in the Frick, has been associated by T. Dell, Furniture in the Frick Collection, Princeton, 1992, pp.315-320 with the Godilles, a celebrated family of Parisian fondeurs. Five members of this dynasty were fondeurs in the 18th Century:- Jean, his two sons Gabriel and André and his grandsons Louis-Gabriel and Jean-Nicolas.
Related ornament can also be seen on clockcases executed by the bronzier Robert Osmond, as well as in the oeuvre of Jean-Louis Prieur.
Although the bronzier remains anonymous, the Hodgkins vases in turn relate to Prince Auguste d'Arenberg's (1753-1833) garniture to be sold from the collection formed by Monsieur and Madame Riahi, Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 25. This latter garniture, together with another in the Frick, has been associated by T. Dell, Furniture in the Frick Collection, Princeton, 1992, pp.315-320 with the Godilles, a celebrated family of Parisian fondeurs. Five members of this dynasty were fondeurs in the 18th Century:- Jean, his two sons Gabriel and André and his grandsons Louis-Gabriel and Jean-Nicolas.
Related ornament can also be seen on clockcases executed by the bronzier Robert Osmond, as well as in the oeuvre of Jean-Louis Prieur.