A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Chinese Turquoise Porcelain Pot-Pourri Vase, the Porcelain Kangxi (1662-1722), the Mounts Louis XV, circa 1760-65, by François-Nicolas Vassoult

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February 7, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

in the form of a lidded porcelain shell with snail-form knop; the bowl with pierced gilt bronze rim with lion masks at either end and a green-painted zinc liner, supported by porcelain coral branches and Foo Dogs clenching gilt bronze laurel swags; raised on a gilt-bronze concave triangular base chased with acanthus rosettes and piastre decoration; repairs to one Foo Dog and coral base

height: 15 ¾ in.; 40 cm

width: 13 ½ in.; 34 cm

depth: 8 ¼ in.; 21 cm

Acquired circa 1760-65 by Augustin Blondel de Gagny (1695-1776), Place Vendôme, Paris;

His sale 10 December 1776 - 22 January 1777, lot 701;

Acquired by Nicolas Beaujon (1718-1786), Hôtel d'Évreux, Paris;

His sale 25 April 1787, lot 321;

Acquired by the marchand mercier Claude-François Julliot (1727-1794) or his son Philippe-François Julliot (1755-1835);

Rothschild Collection, France;

Thence by descent to Baron Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007), Château de Ferrières, Ferrières-en-Brie, France;

Sotheby's Monaco, 3 December 1994, lot 81;

Private collection.

Alexandre Pradère, 'L'hôtel de Blondel de Gagny (1697-1777), place Vendôme, décor intérieur, ameublement et objets d’art', Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français, Année 2017 (2024), p.50, fig.34.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Sven Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France, London 1974;

Pierre Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1987;

Thedore Dell, Furniture in the Frick Collection, vol. VI, New York 1992;

Kristel Smentek, Rococo Exotic : French Mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East, New York 2007

Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, 'Le triomphe du goût à la grecque dans les arts décoratifs français (1750-1775),' in L’Objet d’Art, February 2008, no. 432, p.66-79;

Daniel Alcouffe, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Gérard Mabille, Les bronzes d’ameublement du Louvre, Dijon 2004;