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*A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE POWDER-BLUE GROUND PORCELAIN VASES
The porcelain kangxi, the mounts circa 1860-1870
Each of tapering form mounted with richly cast foliate scrolls with S-shaped foliate-cast handles issuing oak branches with acorns on berried pierced foliate scrolled foot, one vase with a circular label inscribed JPGM and a rectangular label 1-3, the other with two rectangular labels 1-36 and 336, one vase decorated with purple and green lambrequins at its base
23½in. (59.5cm.) high, 12in. (30cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Mrs. Evelyn Saint George, Cam House, sold Sotheby's London, 24-25 July, 1939, lot 81
Purchased at the above sale by J. Paul Getty
Literature
G. Wilson et al., Mounted Oriental Porcelain, 1982, no. 18, pp. 82-84
F.J.B. Watson, 'Mounted Oriental Porcelain', The Magazine Antiques, April 1987, pp. 813-823
The Frick Collection, Mounted Oriental Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, no. 44, pp. 116-117
C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 158, no. 267.
Exhibited
Woodside, California, Filoli, on loan, 1979-1991
The Frick Collection, New York, Mounted Oriental Porcelain, December 1986-March 1987
