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拍品專文
The beautiful ormolu mounts closely relate to those produced by the Parisian marchand-éditeur and luxury boutique L'Escalier de Cristal, who was renowned for their innovative and expressive bronze mountings for precious Chinese porcelain. Established in 1802 by Mme. Désarnaud, the firm would become in the late 19th century the premier retailer of objets de luxe including vases, lighting, furniture, clocks and bibelot from showrooms in the fashionable area of L'Opéra. As 'Fournisseur breveté du Roi’ they supplied furniture and objets d’art to noble families throughout France and beyond, including to Russian clientele such as Tsar Alexander III, Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch and the Demidov Family.
A flambe-glazed vase with very similar ormolu mounts is illustrated by A. Masseau and D. Masseau in L’Escalier de Cristal: le luxe à Paris 1809-1923, Paris, 2021, p. 174. A pair of such vases was supplied by the firm to the Rothschild Family and a related example is preserved in the permanent collection of Waddesdon Manor. The model was additionally adapted by the celebrated ébéniste, Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley (d. 1919), whose family workshop was lauded for the extremely high-level quality of bronze chasing and use of excessively precious hardstones and porcelain. A celadon-glazed cong-form vase with very similar ormolu mounts was sold following the closing of the atelier on 6-9 May 1895 at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 16. (Fig. 1)
A similar Daoguang-marked cong-form vase formerly in the collection of Dr. Henri Onimus was sold at Christie’s London, 8 November 2011, lot 362. Another Daoguang-marked example was sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 2015, lot 2176.
A flambe-glazed vase with very similar ormolu mounts is illustrated by A. Masseau and D. Masseau in L’Escalier de Cristal: le luxe à Paris 1809-1923, Paris, 2021, p. 174. A pair of such vases was supplied by the firm to the Rothschild Family and a related example is preserved in the permanent collection of Waddesdon Manor. The model was additionally adapted by the celebrated ébéniste, Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley (d. 1919), whose family workshop was lauded for the extremely high-level quality of bronze chasing and use of excessively precious hardstones and porcelain. A celadon-glazed cong-form vase with very similar ormolu mounts was sold following the closing of the atelier on 6-9 May 1895 at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 16. (Fig. 1)
A similar Daoguang-marked cong-form vase formerly in the collection of Dr. Henri Onimus was sold at Christie’s London, 8 November 2011, lot 362. Another Daoguang-marked example was sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 2015, lot 2176.