A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND GILT-COPPER WALL-APPLIQUES
THE PROPERTY OF JAIME ORTIZ-PATIÑO
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND GILT-COPPER WALL-APPLIQUES

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GOUTHIERE, CIRCA 1790-1800, THE KNOTTED RIBBONS ADDED BY MONBRO CIRCA 1860

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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND GILT-COPPER WALL-APPLIQUES
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GOUTHIERE, CIRCA 1790-1800, THE KNOTTED RIBBONS ADDED BY MONBRO CIRCA 1860
Each hung from a knotted ribbon, the beaded floral wreath enclosing an oval medallion centred by winged putti bearing Love attributes, the figural plaques probably original
25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
'Collection Georges Hoentschel', 31 March-2 April 1919, lot 207 (as a set of four, all illustrated)
'Collection of M. Paul Dutasta', Galerie Georges Petit, Lair-Dubreuil/Desvouges, 3-4 June 1926, lot 101 (as a set of four, all illustrated).
'Property of Mrs Corinna Kavanagh', Buenos Aires, Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1963, lot 13 (the present pair).
Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1968, lot 25 (the present pair).

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This pair of wall-appliques was formerly in the collection of Georges Hoentschel (1855-1915), a French Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, architect, decorator and grand amateur who ceded the majority of his decorative arts collection to his friend John Pierpont Morgan, who in turned gifted it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The present wall-appliques were subsequently acquired by French politician Paul Eugène Dutasta (1873-1926) and later formed part of the collections of Argentinian socialite Corinna Kavanagh.

These wall-appliques were most certainly executed by the celebrated ciseleur-doreur Pierre Gouthière (1732-c.1813). The quality of execution, visible particularly in the naturalistic representation of the various types of flowers and foliage, is indeed worthy of Gouthière. Furthermore, the use of copper rather than bronze to the central plate indicates the work of an orfèvre or silversmith, in which capacity Gouthière first trained.

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