A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CELADON-GROUND PORCELAIN YENYEN VASES

THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1775, THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CELADON-GROUND PORCELAIN YENYEN VASES
THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1775, THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722)
Each porcelain body decorated in cobalt blue, copper red and white slip with the Eight Horses of Mu Wang, each shown in a different posture in a landscape with pine trees, and with Triton child figures to the side on fluted base
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 June 1972, lot 5.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Alexander; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 328.
The Greenberg Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2004, lot 32.

Lot Essay

The porcelain bodies of these vases are very similarly decorated to the pair of Louis XV ormolu-mounted Kangxi porcelain ewers in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Differently mounted and decorated with deer rather that horses, but displaying a very close composition in underglazed copper red and blue on a similar pale grey-green celadon ground, they are illustrated in F.J.B. Watson and G.Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, pp. 48-49 (78.DI.9.1-.2).

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