Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Japanese porcelain ewers, the porcelain 18th century, the mounts Louis XVI, circa 1780
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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Japanese porcelain ewers, the porcelain 18th century, the mounts Louis XVI, circa 1780
the porcelain in blue decorated with landscapes and figures; the handle in shape of a young satyr handing the collar, on a scrolled base
height 13 in.; 33 cm.
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Paire d'aiguières en porcelaine et bronze doré, la porcelaine Japon, XVIIIe siècle, la monture d'époque Louis XVI, vers 1780
height 13 in.; 33 cm.
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Sotheby's New York, Fine French Furniture, 20 May 2010, lot 10.
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Sotheby's New York, Fine French Furniture, 20 mai 2010, lot 10.
A design in the Municipal Library, Besançon, showing an ewer mounted with a crouching mermaid, very similar to the figures on the vases in this lot, is illustrated H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. II, Munich, 1989, p. 579, fig. 18. The vase, mounted in ormolu by Pierre Gouthière in 1782, was lot 114 in the celebrated sale of the collection of the duc d'Aumont.
A similar crouching satyr figure appears on an ormolu-mounted verde antico garniture in a Paris private collection (see H. Ottomeyer op. cit., p. 565) which is very close to a garniture (present whereabouts unknown) supplied by Gouthière to Madame du Barry in 1770.