Lot 938
  • 938

A gilt-bronze Sèvres-style jardinière late 19th century

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • ceramics
  • 29cm. high, 41cm. long; 11½in., 20in.
each side painted with reserves against a bleu-céleste ground, one showing ladies in a landscape, the other with lavish flower sprays, rococo-style ormolu mounts



Photographed in the Ballroom, Devonshire House, circa 1900, illustrated

Provenance


 

Literature

Illustrated in Devonshire House Inventory, 1892, p. 111 in the Ballroom; and Devonshire House Inventory, 1908, p. 91

Condition

There is a 2cm.(¾in.) long crack running down the jardinière wall, just bellow the right handle
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