拍品專文
These bacchic thyrsus-finialed vases have elliptic reed-gadrooned bowls whose serpentined form with everted lips correspond to a marble antiquity thought to have belonged to Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul (d.1785). It inspired the related vases Choiseul executed at the Sèvres porcelain manufactory in the 1760s, such as that of 1763 that was formerly in the Henry Hope collection before its presentation in 1882 to the South Kensington/Victoria & Albert Museum (R.J. Charleston, 'John Jones; The Sèvres Collection', Apollo, March 1972, fig.3).
An identical pair of vases was sold from the Champalimaud Colection, Christie's London, 6 July 2005, lot 69 (£110,000 plus premium). A further related pair of vases and covers, undoubtedly executed in the same workshop and mounted with ribbon-tied guilloche, standing on a double-stepped plinth, was sold by the Rt. Hon. Lord Hillingdon at Christie's London, 30 May 1968, lot 42.
An identical pair of vases was sold from the Champalimaud Colection, Christie's London, 6 July 2005, lot 69 (£110,000 plus premium). A further related pair of vases and covers, undoubtedly executed in the same workshop and mounted with ribbon-tied guilloche, standing on a double-stepped plinth, was sold by the Rt. Hon. Lord Hillingdon at Christie's London, 30 May 1968, lot 42.