A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED JAPANESE LACQUER POTS-POURRIS

Lot 3
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Lot 3 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED JAPANESE LACQUER POTS-POURRIS
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED JAPANESE LACQUER POTS-POURRIS

CIRCA 1775-85, THE LACQUER EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

Each with a cover surmounted by a tabouret with tasselled finial on a black lacquer roundel enriched with gold maki-e trees and an oar surrounded by a raised pierced border, the moulded rim above a pierced frieze mounted with Bacchus masks issuing handles, the body decorated with a fir branch, a hat and a fan, with a gadrooned waist terminating in a berry boss, supported on four legs headed by scrolls and terminating in goat hooves on a circular stiff leaf-moulded plinth centred by a flowerhead, on a white marble base

10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm.) high; 6 3/4 in. (17.5 cm.) wide





Provenance

Collection of Madame de Polès; Galerie Jean Charpentier, Me Etienne Ader, Paris, 17 November 1936, lot 156, illustrated pl. XXXIII.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Volume I, London, 2009, p. 343-345, cat. n° 77.



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