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AIGUIÈRE D`ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV

Lot 25
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1507797
Lot 25 | AIGUIÈRE D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV
Estimate value
€ 80 000 – 120 000
AIGUIÈRE D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV
D'APRÈS UN DESSIN DE FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, VERS 1760
En jaspe et bronze ciselé et doré, le corps piriforme, le couvercle amovible sommé d'un enfant et d'un agneau, la anse appliquée d'une chèvre, le col à doucine présentant des guirlandes de lauriers et des volutes feuillagées, le piédouche à concretions et feuillages ; petites restaurations à la pierre
H. 34 cm. (13 1/3 in.) ; L. 19 cm. (7 ½ in.)




Provenance

Arnold Seligmann (1871-1935), Paris;
Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934);
Collection de Mme Henry Walters, sa vente Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, New York, du 23 avril au 3 mai 1941, lot 678.
Jacques Helft (1891-1980), New York;
Collection Georges Lurcy, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 8-9 novembre 1957, lot 319;
H. Blairman & Sons Ltd, Londres;
Collection privée anglaise, acquise auprès de cette dernière le 24 avril 1961;
Vente, Sotheby's Londres, 8 juillet 2015, lot 15;
Vente, Sotheby's, Paris, Hôtel Lambert, Une collection Princière, 12 octobre 2022, lot 168.



Literature

Bibliographie comparative :
P. Verlet, Objets d'art français de la Collection Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1969, s.p., n°10.
K. Baetjer, J. D. Draper, Only the best: Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbonne, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 112-113, n°52.



Further Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JASPER EWER, AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, CIRCA 1760
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