- 127
a pair of cassolettes French, circa 1870
Description
- height 20 in.
- 50.8 cm
Literature
E. Williamson, Les meubles d'art du mobilier national, 1883, illustrated, "cette cassolette est placée dans une des pieces de l'appartement de Louis XV au Pallais de Versailles" (see foreward to the present sale for the Louvre example exhibited in 1882).
Another, in the Jones Collection ( No. 1137), Victoria & Albert Museum, shown in an engraving illustrated in O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, London, 1922, fig. 4
Catalogue Note
It is interesting to note that Alfred Beurdeley copied this royal model. A single example by him but in alabaster, was sold at Palais D'Orsay, Collections Beurdeley, Exceptionnel ensemble de meubles et objects d'art du xixe siècle, May 16, 1979, lot 48 (illustrated) and was exhibited in his stand at the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition.