View full screen - View 1 of Lot 21. A pair of early Louis XV gilt-bronze and gilt-metal-mounted Chinese celadon-ground pot-pourri bowls and covers, the porcelain Qianlong mark and period.

Property of the Trustees of the Lord Swinton Will Trust

A pair of early Louis XV gilt-bronze and gilt-metal-mounted Chinese celadon-ground pot-pourri bowls and covers, the porcelain Qianlong mark and period

Auction Closed

July 5, 02:27 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of the Trustees of the Lord Swinton Will Trust

A pair of early Louis XV gilt-bronze and gilt-metal-mounted Chinese celadon-ground pot-pourri bowls and covers, the porcelain Qianlong mark and period


the lids with leaf-ornamented ball finials, with pierced crossed ribbon borders below, raised on leaf-cast scroll feet


28.5cm. high, 19cm. wide; 11¼in., 7½in.

Acquired by Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Baron Masham of Swinton (1815-1906), circa 1890 for Swinton Park, North Yorkshire;

thence by descent to his grand-daughter and heir Mary Constance "Molly" Boynton (d.1890-1974), who married Philip Lloyd-Greame (who took the name Cunliffe-Lister), later 1st Earl of Swinton, and by descent to the Trustees of the Lord Swinton Will Trust.

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