Lot 11
11
A LOUIS XV GILT-BRONZE AND CHINESE APPLE-GREEN GLAZED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER, the domed cover surmounted by a scrolled acanthus mace and flowerhead finial within a Régence collar etched with rosettes and scrolled foliage, the pierced frieze cast with rockwork C-scrolls and foliate trails, issuing two pierced scrolled foliate-trailed handles with up-springing acanthus bases, on a pierced asymmetrical channelled foliate C-scroll, mace and acanthus-cast base, the porcelain Kangxi and restored, the finial with small repair, the mounts struck five times with the C couronné poinçon

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A LOUIS XV GILT-BRONZE AND CHINESE APPLE-GREEN GLAZED PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER, the domed cover surmounted by a scrolled acanthus mace and flowerhead finial within a Régence collar etched with rosettes and scrolled foliage, the pierced frieze cast with rockwork C-scrolls and foliate trails, issuing two pierced scrolled foliate-trailed handles with up-springing acanthus bases, on a pierced asymmetrical channelled foliate C-scroll, mace and acanthus-cast base, the porcelain Kangxi and restored, the finial with small repair, the mounts struck five times with the C couronné poinçon
9½in. (24cm.) wide; 10in. (25.5cm.) high; 6½in. (16.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., depicted in the interior circa 1923 of the Large Drawing Room by E. Shepherd
Literature
G. Worsley, 'Houghton', Country Life, 4 March 1993, p.53, fig. 9 (illustrated in situ in the White Drawing Room)
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21 - April 5 1933, no. 50 (Catalogue, p.15)

Lot Essay

The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749

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