A GARNITURE OF THREE LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND FRENCH APPLE-GREEN SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS, each with domed circular lid surmounted by a foliate cast finial above a pierced beaded and entrelac frieze flanked by twin reeded, scrolled and foliate cast handles, the tapering cylindrical body above a fluted spreading laurel-bound circular socle and on square plinth with re-entrant corners, the central vase with associated gilt-bronze pierced domed laurel cast lid with berried finial, the porcelain perhaps Sevres | Christie's

Lot 37

A GARNITURE OF THREE LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND FRENCH APPLE-GREEN SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS, each with domed circular lid surmounted by a foliate cast finial above a pierced beaded and entrelac frieze flanked by twin reeded, scrolled and foliate cast handles, the tapering cylindrical body above a fluted spreading laurel-bound circular socle and on square plinth with re-entrant corners, the central vase with associated gilt-bronze pierced domed laurel cast lid with berried finial, the porcelain perhaps Sevres

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A GARNITURE OF THREE LOUIS XVI GILT-BRONZE AND FRENCH APPLE-GREEN SEVRES PORCELAIN POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS, each with domed circular lid surmounted by a foliate cast finial above a pierced beaded and entrelac frieze flanked by twin reeded, scrolled and foliate cast handles, the tapering cylindrical body above a fluted spreading laurel-bound circular socle and on square plinth with re-entrant corners, the central vase with associated gilt-bronze pierced domed laurel cast lid with berried finial, the porcelain perhaps Sevres
The central vase 5¾in. (14.5cm.) wide; 9in. (22.5cm.) high
The flanking vases 5½in. (14cm.) wide; 8½in. (21.5cm.) high (3)

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

D. Cooper ed. Great Family Collections, London, 1965, p. 234 (illustrated in situ in the Drawing-Room

Exhibited

Possibly London, 25 Park Lane, W1, Three French Reigns, February 21-April 5, 1933, no. 527 ('a garniture of five green Sèvres vases') (Catalogue, p. 73)

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