A REGENCE GILT-BRONZE AND CHINESE AUBERGINE-GLAZED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER, the domed cover pierced with reeded apertures surmounted by a domed cap chased with bell-husk swags and gadroons and surmounted by a reeded trellis and berried foliate waisted finial, the reeded panelled frieze etched with confronting dolphins and foliate scrolls on a hatched and pounced ground, the tapering body mounted with an entrelac collar and domed acanthus boss, on scroll headed and husk-trailed splayed feet in the form of female masks, one with paper label to the inside GVR beneath a crown, BUCKINGHAM PALACE L.C.D., with pencil inscription Rm 377, the porcelain bowl with old repair, two feet re-attached, the porcelain Kangxi

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A REGENCE GILT-BRONZE AND CHINESE AUBERGINE-GLAZED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER, the domed cover pierced with reeded apertures surmounted by a domed cap chased with bell-husk swags and gadroons and surmounted by a reeded trellis and berried foliate waisted finial, the reeded panelled frieze etched with confronting dolphins and foliate scrolls on a hatched and pounced ground, the tapering body mounted with an entrelac collar and domed acanthus boss, on scroll headed and husk-trailed splayed feet in the form of female masks, one with paper label to the inside GVR beneath a crown, BUCKINGHAM PALACE L.C.D., with pencil inscription Rm 377, the porcelain bowl with old repair, two feet re-attached, the porcelain Kangxi
5¼in. (14cm.) wide; 7¾in. (20cm.) high

Provenance

Possibly acquired by George IV
Recorded at Buckingham Palace in Room 377 in 1911

Lot Essay

The predominance of Chinese and Japanese porcelain mounted with gilt-bronze in the Royal Collection typified the fashionable 'goût' so enthusiastically promoted by George, Prince of Wales (later George IV) and his circle. The marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1854), who was in turn patronised by George IV, William IV (Purveyor of China, Earthenware and Glass) and Queen Victoria (Purveyor of China) may well have been responsible for supplying this pot-pourri vase and cover to his principal patron

Related silver-gilt mounts appear on a Chinese blanc de chine pot-pourri in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, Part I, Furniture, London, 1922, no. 183, pl. 39)

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