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Lot Essay
A pair of apple-green vases sold Christie's London, 24 November 1960, lot 81, from the collection of the Misses Milligan, removed from Cauldwell Hall, Burton-on-Trent, are identically mounted in every respect except the twisted band dividing the lower parts of the vases and the circular bases. The same finely cast satyr mask and sag mounts also occur on a pair of pot-pourri vases in the James A. de Rothschild collection, Waddesdon Manor, illsutrated in .Svend Eriksen, Early Neo-classicism in France, 1974, pl. 238.
These are in turn related to the group of which the following lot in this collection is an example. Eriksen draws attention (p.362) to Sir Francis Watson's observation that the earliest example of this latter model are the blue pair at the Vyne most probably bought by Horace Walpole in Pairs in 1765-66 for his friend John Chute. Eriksen (pp. 103-109) also draws attention to the entrepreneurial role played by the marchands-merciers such as Dulac, Grouel and Poirier, who purchased unmounted vases from the Sevres factory, often imitating Oriental examples, and then commissioned mounts in advanced neo-classical taste such as these.
These are in turn related to the group of which the following lot in this collection is an example. Eriksen draws attention (p.362) to Sir Francis Watson's observation that the earliest example of this latter model are the blue pair at the Vyne most probably bought by Horace Walpole in Pairs in 1765-66 for his friend John Chute. Eriksen (pp. 103-109) also draws attention to the entrepreneurial role played by the marchands-merciers such as Dulac, Grouel and Poirier, who purchased unmounted vases from the Sevres factory, often imitating Oriental examples, and then commissioned mounts in advanced neo-classical taste such as these.