A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SAINT CLOUD PORCELAIN LATER-DECORATED POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1750, THE DECORATION AND ORMOLU MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SAINT CLOUD PORCELAIN LATER-DECORATED POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1750, THE DECORATION AND ORMOLU MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY
Each of baluster form, applied with trailing flowering vines on a pale turquoise-ground, the rockwork foot enriched in gilt, on a pierced scrolling ormolu base
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high (6)

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For traditional, undecorated Saint Cloud pot-pourris with similar applied flowers, see L.H. Roth and C. Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000, cat. no. 1 for an example from the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection; and B. Randot, ed., Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766, New York, 1999, cat. nos. 164 and 165.

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