Lot Essay
A similar example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (J.H. Fitzhenny Gift, 1909)
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A PAIR OF ST. CLOUD WHITE POT-POURRI VASES AND PIERCED COVERS
CIRCA 1740
Each lobed basket-weave jar with rope-twist handles, the covers with three groups of applied flowers raised on pierced rockwork bases with applied berried branches (chipping to flowers and foliage, one with extended firing crack to one side)--6in. (15cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1740
Each lobed basket-weave jar with rope-twist handles, the covers with three groups of applied flowers raised on pierced rockwork bases with applied berried branches (chipping to flowers and foliage, one with extended firing crack to one side)--6in. (15cm.) high (2)
Provenance
With Adolph Lion, Paris
The late Thelma Chrysler Foy, sale Parke-Bernet, May 16, 1959, lot 247
The late Thelma Chrysler Foy, sale Parke-Bernet, May 16, 1959, lot 247