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拍品专文
With their elegant restrained neo-classical forms and extremely fine chasing, these perfume burners relate to the oeuvre of the Viennese court gold and silversmith Joseph Ignaz Wurth (d. 1792), whose distinctive elaborate but refined style gained him much acclaim at the Imperial Court in the last quarter of the 18th Century. .
Georges Geffroy (1903-1971), one of post-war Paris society's most eminent designers, was an expert in classic, yet somewhat theatrical, period decoration. He was "an eighteenth-century gentleman, a figure from another era, one of a breed of decorators that is extinct today", remembers Hubert de Givenchy, an ardent admirer of his work.
Georges Geffroy (1903-1971), one of post-war Paris society's most eminent designers, was an expert in classic, yet somewhat theatrical, period decoration. He was "an eighteenth-century gentleman, a figure from another era, one of a breed of decorators that is extinct today", remembers Hubert de Givenchy, an ardent admirer of his work.