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拍品專文
With its vigorous and naturalistically-modelled scrolling acanthus, this pot-pourri vase reflects the Louis XV 'pittoresque' style promoted by marchands-mercier such as Lazare Duvaux. As his Livre-Journal testifies, the latter sold vases of this general form as early as 6 December 1751 to the Marquise de Pompadour, as well as Deux pots pourris céladon, montés en bronze doré d'or moulu 288 livres to the comtesse de Bentleim on 15 December 1756. Duvaux is known to have employed the bronzier Jean-Claude Duplessis to mount Chinese porcelain - such as the vase sold to the marquise de Voyer on 21 August 1753: La Monture en cuivre ciselé d'un vase du porcelaine bleu, payée à M. Duplessis- but any firm attribution to a specific bronzier is unsustainable, both Thomas Germain and Jacques Cafffiéri having also been suggested as possible authors of this form of mounted vase.
Related ormolu-mounted celadon porcelain pots-pourri, often stamped with the C couronné poinçon but of slightly larger size, include the single vase sold by the Trustees of the Luton Hoo Foundation, Christie's London, 9 June 1994, lot 32 (£154,000); a pair in the J. Paul Getty Museum (F.J.B. Watson and G. Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, no.10, pp. 53-57); and a final pair in the Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco (D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in europaïschen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, p. 323, no. 304). A pair of closely related size, but with a flatter domed top and with less full-blown Louis XV mounts, was sold from the collection of the comte de Greffulhe at Sotheby's London, 22 July 1937, lot 5 (one of these was subsequently resold from the Alexander Collection in these Rooms, 30 April 1999, lot 99 ($122,500)), whilst a final similar single pot-purri was sold from the Laura Collection, Sotheby's/Poulain Le Fur, Paris, 27 June 2001, lot 47 (FFr. 1,090,000).
Related ormolu-mounted celadon porcelain pots-pourri, often stamped with the C couronné poinçon but of slightly larger size, include the single vase sold by the Trustees of the Luton Hoo Foundation, Christie's London, 9 June 1994, lot 32 (£154,000); a pair in the J. Paul Getty Museum (F.J.B. Watson and G. Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, no.10, pp. 53-57); and a final pair in the Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco (D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in europaïschen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, p. 323, no. 304). A pair of closely related size, but with a flatter domed top and with less full-blown Louis XV mounts, was sold from the collection of the comte de Greffulhe at Sotheby's London, 22 July 1937, lot 5 (one of these was subsequently resold from the Alexander Collection in these Rooms, 30 April 1999, lot 99 ($122,500)), whilst a final similar single pot-purri was sold from the Laura Collection, Sotheby's/Poulain Le Fur, Paris, 27 June 2001, lot 47 (FFr. 1,090,000).