Lot 7
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT AND BLUE-JAPANNED TOLE CACHE POTS
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT AND BLUE-JAPANNED TOLE CACHE POTS

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT AND BLUE-JAPANNED TOLE CACHE POTS
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with chinoiserie scenes with figures in landscapes, the moulded edge above a tapering cylindrical body, the sides with foliate-edged handles issuing from bearded masks, on a moulded spreading foot, with later liners, losses to the decoration
8 in. (20.5 cm.) high; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20.5 cm.) deep (2)
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Lot Essay

A closely related pair of tôle seaux à bouteille are signed François Louis Dorez fecit à lille (sold anonymously at Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1985, lot 62). Dorez was a member of a large family of Lille faienciers and moved to Valenciennes to set up a faience workshop in 1737, at which time he was trying to sell a lacquer commode, possibly also of tôle (see John Whitehead, The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century, Singapore, 1992, p.192).

A pair of almost identical seaux a raffraichissoir is in the musée Carnavalet, Paris (illustrated in Collection Henriette bouvier, Paris, 1968, no. 20).

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