A PAIR OF RESTORATION PORCELAIN GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED SLENDER URN-SHAPED VASES
CIRCA 1815
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A PAIR OF RESTORATION PORCELAIN GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED SLENDER URN-SHAPED VASES
CIRCA 1815
With burnished and matt-gilt caryatid handles, one painted with Paul and Virginia in a cradle, the other with the infants standing by a well before two ladies, within tapering rectangular panels, the burnished gilt-ground decorated with matt, chased and raised gilding, the reverse with a roundel of caryatids below flower-baskets, above wyverns supporting plinths suspending pendant drapery swags surmounted by burning braziers and trophies below Cupids, the shoulders with applied bands of white biscuit porcelain flowers and beaded bands, the necks decorated with oval panels of maidens above clouds, and with bands of fruiting vines, supported on square polished slate bases
Each: 20 ⁵/₈ in. (52.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 1815
With burnished and matt-gilt caryatid handles, one painted with Paul and Virginia in a cradle, the other with the infants standing by a well before two ladies, within tapering rectangular panels, the burnished gilt-ground decorated with matt, chased and raised gilding, the reverse with a roundel of caryatids below flower-baskets, above wyverns supporting plinths suspending pendant drapery swags surmounted by burning braziers and trophies below Cupids, the shoulders with applied bands of white biscuit porcelain flowers and beaded bands, the necks decorated with oval panels of maidens above clouds, and with bands of fruiting vines, supported on square polished slate bases
Each: 20 ⁵/₈ in. (52.4 cm.) high
Provenance
George Bying Esq. M.P. (d.1847) and by descent.
Two Late Regency Collectors: Philip John Miles & George Byng; Christie's, London, 9 June 2005, lot 2.
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 30 June 2021, lot 356, where acquired by the present owner.
Two Late Regency Collectors: Philip John Miles & George Byng; Christie's, London, 9 June 2005, lot 2.
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 30 June 2021, lot 356, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
'List of Furniture, Porcelain, Paintings & C., purchased by George Byng Esq., for Wrotham Park, 1816-43', '1820 Paris 2 Vases White and Gold - 100 Francs or £ 0s 0d'.
Inventaire de Wrotham Park en 1847, 'SECOND DRAWING ROOM A pair of painted and gilt French china vases 21in. high'.
Inventaire mobilier de Strafford, vers 1918, 'WROTHAM PARK- BOUDOIR 4.4.0 Pair of richly gilt 21' vases with figures and raisd flowers'.
Inventaire de Wrotham Park en 1847, 'SECOND DRAWING ROOM A pair of painted and gilt French china vases 21in. high'.
Inventaire mobilier de Strafford, vers 1918, 'WROTHAM PARK- BOUDOIR 4.4.0 Pair of richly gilt 21' vases with figures and raisd flowers'.
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