A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS VASES

CIRCA 1775, THE CUT-GLASS BODIES LATER REPLACEMENTS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS VASES
Circa 1775, the cut-glass bodies later replacements
The looped channelled handles threading a pierced guilloche collar, the tapering lozenge-cut facetted glass bodies upon a gadrooned spreading socle and laurel-bound plinth, on cut-cornered square base, originally with porcelain bodies and lids
8in. (20.3cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

Designed in the gôut Grec manner and originally intended with Sèvres porcelain bodies, these ormolu mounts can be dated to the mid-1770's. A related pair, the porcelain marked with the date letter for 1774, was sold from the Keck Collection at Sotheby's New York, 4 December 1991, lot 225, whilst a further pair of this model - but with a Greek-key foot - was sold by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Works of Art from Houghton, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 36.