STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics

STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 731. A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED BLUE GLAZE OCTAGONAL COVERED VASES, THE PORCELAIN QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1770 AND MID-19TH CENTURY.

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED BLUE GLAZE OCTAGONAL COVERED VASES, THE PORCELAIN QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1770 AND MID-19TH CENTURY

Auction Closed

October 25, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED BLUE GLAZE OCTAGONAL COVERED VASES, THE PORCELAIN QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS CIRCA 1770 AND MID-19TH CENTURY


the exteriors of the vases with traces of gilt decoration

height 25 ½in.; width 12 in.; width of base 9 ½in.

65 cm; 30.5 cm; 24 cm

A pair of nearly identical gilt-bronze mounted Chinese porcelain vases are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (56.140.1a,b, 2a,b). The latter are the same size and colour as the offered lot with less abraded traces of gilt decoration, and the mounts are of the same model with a slight variation to the design of the handles, which also have additional large bacchic masks present below. One is illustrated in D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen (Braunschweig 1980), p.306, fig.274.

The Metropolitan pair was acquired in 1956 from French & Company and said to have formerly been in the collections of the London art dealer E.M. Hodgkins and George Gould, though it also appears to be the pair from the collection of Mrs. Louis Raphael, sold Christie's London, 18-19 May 1927, lot 55. Both these vases and the offered lot are likely to have emanated from the same source.