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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CELADON PORCELAIN BAMBOO-FORM BRUSHPOTS

THE PORCELAIN QIANLONG (1735-1795), THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1750

Details

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CELADON PORCELAIN BAMBOO-FORM BRUSHPOTS
THE PORCELAIN QIANLONG (1735-1795), THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1750
Each with pierced scrolling rocaille base
7 in. (18 cm.) high

Provenance

Possibly Pierre-Victor baron de Besenval in his hôtel in the rue de Grenelle, Paris and subsequently sold Paris, 10 August 1795, as part of lot 148.
With Michel Meyer, Paris, circa 1970.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Paris, 22 October 2008, lot 58.
Private collection, United States until sold, Christie's ; London, 8 July 2021, lot 4.

Literature

Plaisir de France, July-August 1974, vol. 421.
P. Gallois, ‘Baron de Besenval’s Eclectic Eye’, The Furniture History Society, Newsletter 221, février 2021, pp. 3-4.

荣誉呈献

Paul Gallois Head of European Furniture, EMEA

展品专文

These extremely rare ormolu-mounted bamboo-shaped brush-pot vases are identical to the vase visible on the left of the chimneypiece in Baron de Besenval's portrait by Pierre-Henri Danloux and can be associated with two known pairs: one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. nos 820, 820A, 1882) and a pair sold at Christie's, London, 4 December 1975, lot 47. They are exemplary of the unique creative involvement of the marchands-merciers such as Lazare-Duvaux who provided luxurious ormolu items for pationate collectors of oriental porcelain such as Baron de Besenval who had a particuar interest in unusual celadon wares.