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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY `VASES NAVETTE`

Lot 54
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 300 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027434
Lot 54 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY 'VASES NAVETTE'
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY 'VASES NAVETTE'

THE PORPHYRY ROMAN, 17TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1785

Each with ovoid lid mounted with a foliate patera and pinecone finial, the rim cast with foliate guilloche motif and an applied rosette, the body with waisted socle above a stepped oval base on a rectangular foot, the stepped plinth with frieze decorated with entrelac rosettes, one vase with label inscribed in pen 'B16 1/4' the other with label inscribed in marker pen 'CH Holl Eutui' and 'P'

20 in. (51 cm.) high, 19 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), Salon des cuirs, in the Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (château de Ferrières, Salon des Cuirs, 'deux vases porphyre et gaines bois doré; estimé 300 francs’).

Les Rothschild en France au XVIIIe siècle, dir. Claude Collard et Melanie Aspey, (cat. exp. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 20 novembre 2012-10 février 2013), Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 131 (ill.)
Applied technique:Ormolu
Medium:Gold, Stone
Historical era:Period of Louis XVI
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Vases and vessels
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