Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND SEVRES APPLE-GREEN PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS, each with domed lid surmounted by a foliate finial and above a bead and entrelac pierced frieze issuing twin pierced reeded and foliate cast handles, the tapering cylindrical body above a gadrooned and foliate spreading circular laurel-bound socle and Greek-key base with re-entrant corners, one lid replaced
5¾in. (14.5cm.) wide; 8½in. (21.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Oval Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939
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. 527 ('a garniture of five green Sèvres vases') (Catalogue, p. 73)
