A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN AQUATIC GROUP

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Lot 1 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN AQUATIC GROUP
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£ 35 000 – 40 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN AQUATIC GROUP

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1741, THE ORMOLU ATTRIBUTED TO JACQUES CAFFIERI CIRCA 1760

Modelled with a large dolphin, its mouth open, with pierced nostrils and glaring red and black eyes, a winged putto riding on its back blowing on a conch shell, an infant winged triton or melusine swimming by its side, the reverse with turquoise reeds, on an ormolu mound base with reeds and supported on pierced rocaille scrolls

15 3⁄4 in. (40 cm.) high overall





Provenance

Probably given to or commissioned by Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, in 1741.

René Fribourg Collection, New York, his sale; Sotheby’s, London, 25 June 1963, Part I, lot 19.



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