A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE-MARBLE VASES NAVETTES
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE-MARBLE VASES NAVETTES

CIRCA 1775

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE-MARBLE VASES NAVETTES
CIRCA 1775
Each with berried foliate finial above an acanthus domed lid, the milles-raies panelled frieze with ribbon-twist and pearled borders, flanked by scrolled acanthus handles with rings, the gadrooned body above a gadrooned collar and spreading oval moulded socle, on a cut-cornered square base with inset pounced panels, inscribed in red chalk to the underside 690 and 690D
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high; 12½ in. (31 cm.) wide; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) deep (2)
來源
Acquired from the Marquis de Chapponay, 22 June 1927.
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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.