A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND SEVRES STYLE TURQUOISE-GROUND PORCELAIN GUERIDON

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. W. A. CRISWELL, SOLD TO BENEFIT CRISWELL COLLEGE (LOTS 301-304)

A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND SEVRES STYLE TURQUOISE-GROUND PORCELAIN GUERIDON

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND SEVRES STYLE TURQUOISE-GROUND PORCELAIN GUERIDON
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The circular top inset with a shallow dish painted with a portait of Louis XIV, signed QUENTIN., surrounded by eighteen oval portrait plaques depicting court beauties, each inscribed on the reverse with the sitter's name, the base cast with putti and winged caryatids, on a shaped triform plinth
31 in. (78.5 cm.) high; 30¾ in. (78 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Porcelain plaques (clockwise from coat-of-arms):

Madame de Maintenom
Madame de Montespan
Madame de Montbazon
Madame de Grignon
Henriette de France
Mademoiselle de la Trésnouille
Mademoiselle de la Vallière
Mademoiselle de la Tablière
Anne d'Autriche
Madame de Lévigné
Marie Thérèse, femme de Louis XIV
Marion de Lorme
Mademoiselle de Ludre
Mademoiselle de Fontanges
Duchesse d'Orléans
Duchesse de Longueville
Mademoiselle de Montpensier

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