Lot Essay
A pair of Louis XVI vases of this shape, the ormolu mounts stamped PAJOT, were sold in these Rooms 4 December, 1975, lot 44.
This form of goat mount, popularised by Thomire, appears on a number of ormolu-mounted Sèvres vases of the 1780's, including a pair in the Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, probably commissioned for Louis XVI's apartments at Versailles and for which Thomire received a payment in 1784 of 1500 livres (see P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorées Français, 1987, p.125, fig.161).
Another pair with very similar mounts is in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (see: M. Brunet, T. Préaud, Sèvres, 1978, pl.LV1.
This form of goat mount, popularised by Thomire, appears on a number of ormolu-mounted Sèvres vases of the 1780's, including a pair in the Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, probably commissioned for Louis XVI's apartments at Versailles and for which Thomire received a payment in 1784 of 1500 livres (see P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorées Français, 1987, p.125, fig.161).
Another pair with very similar mounts is in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (see: M. Brunet, T. Préaud, Sèvres, 1978, pl.LV1.