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A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE EXPORT IMARI ARMORIAL VASES

Lot 15
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 120 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 15 | A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE EXPORT IMARI ARMORIAL VASES
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE EXPORT IMARI ARMORIAL VASES

THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD (1654-1722), CIRCA 1705, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1810-20

Each bearing the arms accollé of Gilles Le Brun (1667-1745), Ecuyer and Sieur de La Franquerie and Marie Pepin, Demoiselle de Bellisle, with entwined acanthus clasped handles terminating in masks, and a ribboned reeded foot mount, the vases further decorated to the upper and lower sections with garden settings of auspicious blossoming flowers and plants including, peonies, chrysanthemum, lotus and the 'Three Friends of Winter', pine, prunus and bamboo, and on an associated carved beech stand

66 in. (167.5 cm.) high, overall; 45 1/2 in. (115.5 cm.) high including handles





Provenance

The Chinese export porcelain vases supplied to Gilles Le Brun (1667-1745) on his occasion of his marriage to Marie Pepin, Demoiselle de Bellisle, en suite with a pair in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace and possibly also supplied to the Prince Regent, later George IV.





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 105, pl. XX.

P. Ennès, 'Vase cornet', Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d’art, 1990-1994, Paris, 1995, p. 214, cat. n° 92.

A. Delaval, 'Les maître d’œuvre du chef d’escadre Pépin de Bellisle: Contant d’Ivry, Galley, Baccarit, 1765-1775', Bulletin Monumental, tome 156, n° 3, 1998, pp. 275-286.

The Chinese Porcelain Company, Exh. cat. Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Works of Art, 11-30 May, 1998, cat. n° 31.

A. Lebel, French and Swiss Armorials on Chinese Export Porcelain of the 18th Century, Bruxelles, 2009, p. 186.









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