ID 1345080
Lot 57 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CRACKLE-GLAZED CELADON PORCELAIN VASE
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
THE ORMOLU ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-CLAUDE CHAMBELLAN DUPLESSIS, CIRCA 1755, THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY
The vase of baluster form and applied with a chilong dragon at each side of the neck, the reeded ormolu mount to the rim flanked by vigorously scrolling handles, on four scrolling feet headed with foliage
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800-1870), and thence by descent to Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), Rue Laffitte, Paris.
Thence by descent to his widow Lady Wallace (1818-97), and bequeathed by her to
Sir John Murray Scott, Bt., his sale; Christie's, London, 24 June 1913, lot 35 (to E.M. Hodgkins).
E.M. Hodgkins.
The Collection of M. Beeche; Paris, 11 June 1947.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1 June 1954, lot 80.
Geoffrey Gilmour, rue du Bac, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1998, lot 10.
Acquired from Partridge, London.
Literature
Bethnal Green Museum, Exhibition Catalogue, 1872, cat. 1269. Sphere, 9 March 1912, p. 278, fig. 1.
P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. III, pp. 1529, 1564, p. 1570, fig. 1.
Exhibited
London, Bethnal Green Museum, 1872-1875.
| Applied technique: | Ormolu, Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Rococo |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, France, Asia, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Ormolu, Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Rococo |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, France, Asia, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
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