A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted Saint-Cloud porcelain pot-pourri jar and cover, circa 1730
Auction Closed
October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted Saint-Cloud porcelain pot-pourri jar and cover, circa 1730
the hexa-lobed, melon-shaped parfum pierced with stylised sunbursts and resting on a naturalistic rockwork base, applied with issuing tendrils, flower sprays and leaves, the pierced slightly domed cover with further flower finial, on a rococo scrolled base
height 8 5⁄8 in.; 22 cm.
(1)
____________________________________________
Vase pot-pourri en porcelaine de Saint-Cloud et bronze doré d'époque Louis XV, vers 1730
height 8 5⁄8 in.; 22 cm.
(1)
Brian Haughton gallery, London, 2013.
____________________________________________
Galerie Brian Haughton, Londres, 2013.
This pot-pourri jar would have been inspired firstly by Japanese censers and the applied flower decoration by Dehua blanc de chine porcelain. Oriental examples had reached the Dresden Collection by 1721 and these forms were used adapted by St. Cloud in the following ten years.
