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
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6,000 - 9,000 EUR
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A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Japanese por🐷celain ewers, the porcelain 18th century, the mounts Louis X🔯VI, circa 1780
the porcelain in blue decorated with landscapes and figures; the handle in shꦫape 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&n🌺bsp;ℱdoré, 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, m🦩ounted 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 unknown𒅌) supplied🏅 by Gouthière to Madame du Barry in 1770.
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