CIRCA 1815-20

细节

A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT-GLASS VASES
CIRCA 1815-20
Each with acanthus milled rim above a hobnail-cut baluster body issuing two pierced lotus and acanthus wrapped scroll handles, on a spreading octagonal socle and stepped plinth base with lotus leaf border and paw feet
15 in. (38 cm.) high (2)

来源

Almost certainly purchased by George Byng Esq. M.P. (d.1847) in Paris and by descent.

注意事项

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拍品专文

The fashion for this type of jewelled and ormolu-mounted cut-glass vase was widespread throughout Paris and Northern Europe in the early 19th century. Interestingly related examples, described as being of 'Russian Stone', were designed and produced under the direction of I.A. Ivanov, director of the Imperial glass works in St Petersburg from 1815-1848; this includes an example in the Hermitage ('St. Petersburg um 1800: Ein goldenes Zeitalter des russischen Zarenreichs; Meisterwerke und autentische Zeugnisse der Zeit uas der Staatlichen Ermitage', Leningrad, Exhibition Catalogue, 1990, cat. no. 344, color plate p. 398).

A closely related pair of vases was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 29 September 1999, lot 363.