A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN PORPHYRY (‘PORPHYRE VERT D’ALSACE’) VASES

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$ 250 000
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01.02.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 9 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN PORPHYRY (‘PORPHYRE VERT D’ALSACE’) VASES
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN PORPHYRY (‘PORPHYRE VERT D’ALSACE’) VASES

THE VASES DESIGNED AND CARVED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE FEUILLET, THE ORMOLU ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GOUTHIERE, CIRCA 1775-1780

Each with domed lid with pinecone finial, the vases of tapering form with entwined snake handles, on turned socle edged with leaves on square ormolu base

21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) high, 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) wide





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Supplied by Jean-Baptiste Feuillet to Jérôme-Robert Millin du Perreux (1733-1794), from whose collection sold, 23 March 1784, lot 9, in a sale organized by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun in Feuillet’s workshop on the grande rue du Faubourg Saint Martin.
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