EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORFIDO VERDE COVERED VASE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The tapering turned body surmounted by a moulded ormolu rim and with a pair of scrolled handles, the removeable lid with pinecone finial, with a gadrooned base and leaf-tip-cast calyx, on a waisted socle and square plinth
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, 9 in. (23 cm.) wide

Provenance

[Probably] Château de Villette.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Further details

This lot will be sold without reserve

Lot Essay

The château de Villette was built around 1695 for the Count of Aufflay, Jean Dyell II, Louis XIV's ambassador to Italy. The château was designed by the famed architect François Mansart (1598-1666), with the construction carried out by his nephew, Jules Hardouin Mansart and gardens by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700). The collaboration of Mansart and Le Notre, architect and landscape architect of Versailles, have earned Villette the nickname "Le Petit Versailles".

The 17th-century residence also played a role in both the book and film version of the recent best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code , as the home of English historian Sir Leigh Teabing.

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