A GARNITURE OF THREE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE BOTTLE VASES

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1800, THE MOUNTS TO THE FLANKING VASES FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, THE CENTRAL VASE PROBABLY MOUNTED IN 1861

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A GARNITURE OF THREE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE BOTTLE VASES
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1800, THE MOUNTS TO THE FLANKING VASES FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, THE CENTRAL VASE PROBABLY MOUNTED IN 1861
Each with fruit decorated finial, and square base, the vases decorated with flowers and butterflies
8 in. (20 cm.) high

Provenance

Almost certainly Sir Henry Hope Edwardes Bt., Wootton Hall, Derbyshire, and by descent to
Lt. Col. Herbert James Hope-Edwardes, Netley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent to
Lady More (née Hope-Edwardes, formerly, Coldwell) at Netley Hall and subsequently Linley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent.

Literature

T. Cox, Inventory of the contents of Netley Hall, Shropshire, 1917, p. 7 (small drawing room).

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Lot Essay

It is almost certainly these vases which are described in a bill from Annoot & Gale, 16 Old Bond Street, made out to Sir Henry Hope Edwardes and dated April 1861 ‘to mounting an oriental china bottle with ormolu handles, top and foot and to regilding the mounts of two others’.

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